Word: lively
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...full-blooded Sioux Indian, delivered a lecture in the Union last evening on "The Real Indian,"-speaking of his training, ideals, and philosophy of life. From his childhood, said Dr. Eastman, the Indian boy is taught to look up to the Great Mystery, to develop his body, to live a simple life, and to be daring and fearless, yet unselfish. The real Indian despised the great machinery of civilization, considering it a defacement of nature. He mourned equally for his friend and his enemy, and until he had been cheated by the English, taught to use whiskey, and driven from...
...Again and again fertile minds startle us with inventions which would have seemed supernatural to the past generation. Is it too much to suppose that in the higher realms of a world where "truth is stranger than fiction" we may not discover the great truth of Immortality? Hope cannot live without immortality, and life cannot go on without hope...
...college, a young man is given the opportunity, because of his freedom, to train himself to choose rightly. Two of the most important fields in which he can exercise choice are his studies and his friends. He should choose those studies in which he takes a live interest and in which, because of that interest, he will work with real pleasure and happiness. In that way, he will learn the pleasure of work and will get into the habit of doing work with lively interest. That attitude will be most valuable in after life, as everything worth while...
...held at East Northfield from June 22 to July 1. On the basis of this advance registration, East Hall, the largest and best equipped dormitory at Northfield has been assigned to the Harvard delegation. As the hall has quarters for over one hundred men, and some men will live in tents, there is still room in the Harvard delegation, for many more men; and the committee wishes to have the hall filled entirely with Harvard men. (The total attendance at the conference will probably be about one thousand men, including large delegations from Princeton, Cornell, Yale, University of Pennsylvania...
...negroes in the United Sates, 7,000,000 live in country districts. The primary problem is therefore that of the negro peasant. This problem is made more acute by the fact that the negro farming population tends to segregate in rather sharply defined areas and thus loses the instruction and stimulus of contact with the more progressive white planter. Education is of great value in relieving this situation...