Word: let
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moreover, let me point out to you another thing. The achievement is not only for those who are abnormally gifted...
...let us note this one thing about that. Just as in David's case the victory is not to the strong. David, as I have said, had the wit to see that there was no use facing a giant by brute force. He could bring no brute force to compare with that of the giant. It was the intelligent use of the means that lay within his reach...
...let me point out one other thing to you, and that is what we mean by accomplishing something. Are you thinking of reputation? If your idea is reputation, you will get your reward. Reputation is a fairly easy thing to get. A little judicious advertising and a little putting forth of one's self will bring a great deal of reputation. Reward is not necessarily of real value to a man who has a deep, earnest conviction of what he wants to do in life. It is the act which is the life itself, and not the fame...
...were an economy of truth not to label it at all but to recognize that in such an institution the community of students is no more, no less, than a mirror of the world beyond the gates. Out task is to encourage others as we would anywhere. But let us have no more, pray, or privative characterization...
...Let me exaggerate! For how can progress be made when things are as they seem? A bit of realism is manifest in that thought. Less than $150 has still to be collected before the wheels of progress can be turned and electric lights installed in the Senior dormitories. It remains for the Class of 1915 to pledge the above amount, and with slight exaggeration on their part an impending failure of the wheels of progress to revolve can be prevented, and attractive Senior dormitories realized. Sophomores! May we appeal to your pocket-books...