Word: men
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...said: The figure of speech is plain and pungent. Salt is savary, purifying, preservative. Christ was not paying compliments to his disciples. He was giving a clear and powerful call to duty. Were they to make their influence felt on earth for good? Men of privilege without power are waste material. Men of enlightenment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. Men of intellectual and moral and religious culture who are not active for good in society are not worth what it costs to produce and keep them. They were meant to be the salt of the earth...
Half the troubles of mankind come from an ignorance which consists less in not knowing things, than in wilfully ignoring known things. Certain great political and social plagues exist for which men of thought should be an antidote. What I plead for today is the wider, nobler, unpaid service which an educated man renders to society simply by being thoughtful and by helping others to think. Passion, as well as ignorance, is dangerous. Educated men should oppose war when avoidable but when it becomes inevitable they should be its most vigorous advocates. No man ought to be too much educated...
YALE GAME USHERS.- The following men report at the Locker Building, Thursday at 1.45, to usher for the Yale game. Those unable to serve please notify H. M. Adams at once. Payson, Hastings, Rust, Hoague, Dalton, Emmons, Wallace, Bigelow, J. C. Rice, L. P. Marvin, K. Adams, Sterling, Graydon, Jordan, Sanborn, Prentiss, Huidekoper, Kilbreth, Brent, Knox...
...MEN who intend to enter the Medical School next year and who wish to secure work in order to help meet their expenses, may see Mr. Hurlbut in his office...
...Millstreams third. In the senior single race, between P. A. Berkeley of the Bradford B. C. and C. Blaikie '99, Berkeley entered a protest, saying that Blaikie had fouled him at the turn. As no definite decision was reached, the referee declared that a week would be given the men, at the end of which time the race would be rowed over again, or, if only one appeared the rece would be awarded him. In the race of the Junior eights the B. A. A. crew, though clearly beaten by the Weld, made a plucky spurt and gained over...