Word: meres
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...here in America, and especially in New York, in nine cases out of ten, one cannot get a civil answer to a civil question. In Europe the reverse is the rule and often mere strangers will go quite out of their way to do what to us would seem an extraordinary act of courtesy...
Intelligence may surely be retained as real even by those who are unwilling to admit anything not rationally connected with the objects of positive science. Now, if science does not mean a mere illusory process, the creative operation of intelligence, as distinguished from the scientific reduction of reality to inert terms, may be considered as absolutely pertinent to the nature of reality, and as well entitled to command all our efforts in its carrying...
...would be successful in this profession, mere knowledge is not sufficient. A man does not conquer nature by mathematical calculations; it is the application of knowledge to existing conditions, the adaptation of theory to meet unusual circumstances that constitutes success; and to do this a man must have imagination...
...such a building will probably come not from undergraduates but from graduates. Now by planning a Harvard swimming pool in the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., Harvard is going to stir up among graduates, interest and support in a new gymnasium for Harvard. This reactive result is not a mere supposition; it is a force which has shown itself in many enterprises...
...wish to call the attention of the Juniors to their class meeting this evening, because the important question of Senior dormitories will be discussed and the situation made clear to everybody. In the past the Junior class has had to fight for mere preference in the allotment of Yard rooms, while this year the entire responsibility of assignment is to be entrusted to the members of the class, who will be allowed the privilege of applying in larger groups than heretofore. All Juniors should at least investigate the question of rooming in the Senior dormitories next year, and it will...