Word: moment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...conditions and eagerness for some practicable reform has been apparent. The most practicable plan yet presented is that of a University Club. Every one knows, however, that such a club, to be of any service, must be backed by the hearty enthusiasm of every man in the University. The moment the graduates feel that such enthusiasm exists, it will become possible to secure the necessary subscriptions. It seems to me that the time is ripe for some active measures to bring all this latent feeling to a head. A vigorous canvass of the College, followed by a rousing mass meeting...
...fact, than those of most of its rivals. There is no lack of muscle and brains with which to win. The trouble is that they are not made use of; that particular branches of activity are left to those who happen to be engaged in them at the moment. In short, there is not enough care taken to use all possible material, and when there is no material to manufacture...
...centralization of the business, or its continuance in separate offices as at the present are matters of no moment to the members of the University. The essential point is to keep the office close at hand in Harvard square, delivery service and all. The statement of the postmaster, therefore, that, even though there be but one office, it will remain in this neighborhood, is perfectly satisfactory. It only remains to be on the lookout lest further developments occasion a change in the present purpose of the Department...
...editors of the Monthly state in the number just published that their object in the coming year will be to show that literature to be good must be natural. As the editorial has it: "The gloomy sonnet is the healthy vent for a moody moment," and "the writing of it is a pathological cure...
...loved Harvard and I worked hard there. On the night of Saturday, May 29, after the Harvard-Princeton baseball game, I did, upon the impulse of the moment (I intended only to paint the score on the sidewalk when I bought the paint) commit what has properly been called an act of vandalism, of which I am heartily ashamed, and which has cost me my dearest ambition. I painted the score upon the pedestal of the statue of John Harvard, but I never intended it for "desecration," although I now feel that the student sentiment was just...