Word: minds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...talked over and certain points were decided on provisionally. Permission for the trip has not yet been obtained from the Faculty, but the cities talked over were as follows. New York, Philadelphia or Washington, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Chicago, Buffalo and Albany. The aim will be constantly kept in mind of shortening the distances between the cities, thus reducing the wear and tear of the journey to a minimum. The active work of rehearsing in the Glee Club will be begun next week. The officers expect an excellent club...
...critical tendency of mind inconsistent with creative power...
...building of the new dormitory at the corner of Linden and Mt. Auburn streets, the work of which is being so energetically pushed, brings to mind this fall with greater force how inadequate are our accommodations for the ever increasing number of students. Year by year more and more men have been crowded from the dormitories till now nearly two-thirds of the college rooms are outside. Moreover the prices of board in Cambridge, high already but always growing higher, make it a serious question for new comers and in some instances have deterred men from coming to Harvard. Thus...
...theories to be expounded are colored, if anything is suppressed or anything is distorted in presenting the result of current scientific thought and investigation, you have a school, not of philosophy, but of sophistry. But it is given to try all things, in calm confidence that the unperverted mind will hold fast to that which is best; if you are Catholic, not in what you teach, but in the spirit and end of your teaching, then indeed you may free humanity from a spectre before which it yet trembles, and but yesterday seemed ready to despair." It is such...
...defeat. This delay might just as well be avoided by providing the funds now. The class wants to send its crew down to the race, the crew is bound to win and has a good chance to do so, and the class will sooner or later make up its mind to send it. As we have shown, it had much better be sooner than later...