Word: let
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Let us reduce the cost of living," has been the slogan of one generation after another. In 1882 the College generation of the day organized the Harvard Co-operative Society to fulfill the slogan. Just what reduction it has secured it is hard to say, for that elusive phantom, the cost of living, has risen beyond our vision on the hot words that have so in-effectually attacked it. But if we may judge by the business done with those who do not expect dividends and from the dividends paid those who do, we are tempted to say that...
...were possible to punish them also it would be perfectly proper. There can be no palliating excuses for such performances. But as usual reform must come from within and we can but call on the students again to take a stand for common sense and decency. Let this be the end of such work...
...teach wisdom. In those years, as now, it was too easily forgotten that a team which is developed slowly may not make so good an appearance in the early games, but is sure toward the end of the season to advance with greater rapidity than a veteran team, unconsciously let down by past successes...
...appreciate its endeavors to find a suitable comedy or light play to use this winter. Even at this late date a last call is being made for a manuscript of a play worthy of the preferred prize and production. It would be a disgrace to our dramatic talent to let the chance go by unchallenged. Competitors of any sort are an eleventh hour genus, and so we are not in dispair. When the competition finally closes we are confident that something worth while will be handed in. Harvard has a reputation for play-writing that must be maintained...
...Potter '14, first scholar of the Senior class urged the freshmen not to overlook scholarship as one of the great activities. Let not hard work discourage, for everything calls for hard work. The belief that scholarship necessitates a hermit's life is a delusion and absolutely discredited. To declare, as some do that study is uninspiring is to hold in contempt the greatest things that men have ever said or thought or done...