Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...look white because the general public was not informed. Reform is discredited in American cities because its devotees have informed neither themselves nor the public as to the essential facts of community needs and government results. Checks and panaceas of every description have been tried--everything but a constant light; everything but consecutive, cumulative publicity of essential facts. . . . No corrupt or incompetent official will put poison in a baby's milk, pile garbage on his neighbor's doorstep, put his hands in his neighbor's pocket, when his neighbor is looking...
...Bureau of Municipal Research aims so to mass the facts of government as to produce artificially the light and the neighbor's eye which will inhibit the desire to misgovern. For the execution of this program, college men are needed. When they do not sincerely love to be intelligent, they at least like to seem to be intelligent. I can conceive of no greater service that can be rendered by the Intercollegiate Civic League than to spread among its membership the idea that no intelligence is negotiable in matters politic but intelligence as to government ends and community needs. When...
...effort to maintain a policy (if such it may be called) that is incompatible with those of our competitors. The new football committee, appointed by Captain Burr, is a move toward permanence in the branch of sport that needs it most, and just as we begin to see light ahead we are confronted by a scheme that, if adopted by Harvard alone, as it is too likely to be, will place us in a worse position than we have yet been...
...afternoon at 5 o'clock in Appleton Chapel and will be conducted by the Rev. Professor E. C. Moore, D.D., of Cambridge, preacher to the University. The musical programme will be as follows: "Almighty God," Schubert; "He forgiveth all thy sins," Garrett; "Refrain thy voice," from the oratorio "The Light of the World," Sullivan. The soloist will be Mr. George J. Parker...
...reported for the first practice of the University and Freshman track squads. Of these, 64 reported at the Gymnasium as candidates for the track events, and 21 reported at the Cage for work in the field events. At the Gymnasium, the track candidates, under Coach Lathrop, went through some light calisthenics and then were divided into two squads. The distance men jogged 13 laps on the board track on Holmes Field, and the sprinters practiced starts...