Word: man
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Individual competition has done more than anything else to make the nation what it is. Socialism is self-contradictory and opposed to deep-rooted and ineradicable human instincts. If everything is accessible to all, why should man strive for something that will not be remunerative to him? Each is proud of his own skill, knowledge, and ability. Socialism in the United States would drive those of superior qualities out of the country, to where such qualities would have a free chance...
...Freshman association football team was defeated by Phillips Andover Academy at Andover Saturday afternoon by the score of 2 to 1. The Freshmen, however, did exceedingly well as the Andover team was the same team that played the University team last Wednesday, with the exception of one man. The field was very muddy making the play slow. In spite of the fact that the Freshmen were scored on twice their defensive play was better than Andover's while the latter excelled in offensive work. The game was evenly matched and well con- tested, Carnochan, Lowrey, and Greene playing well...
Another precaution which each class must take for itself in regard to this office is the selection of a man who is going to live in the vicinity of Boston. On its face such a narrowing of choice would seem to be undemocratic and tending to sectionalism, but the experience of those who have had most to do with alumni affairs has shown again and again that a Secretary of only ordinary attainments living in close proximity to Boston is a more valuable officer than a brilliant man who resides at a distance. Since the centralization of alumni interests...
...course, impossible to guarantee that any man elected to the place will always reside near the University, but by giving attention to the matter each class can be reasonably sure of having a Secretary who through family connections or other associations is quite certain to be permanently established near the centre of class interests...
...final contest will be held in the New Lecture Hall, Thursday, December 16. Each man will speak for ten minutes on the subject "Resolved, That the French government should adopt an income tax in order to distribute more equitably the burden of the taxation." Those desiring to, can make arrangements for practice with Professor I. L. Winter '86, of the Public Speaking Department. The judges for the final contest, in accordance with the provisions of the founding of the Pasteur Medal, will be chosen as follows: one from the French Department, one from the Department of Public Speaking...