Word: move
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regrettable, but none the less unavoidable fact. Then, because a great number of men were prevented from reaching home for Christmas Eve, the Faculty made an attempt to obtain the present allowance, pleading the universal importance of that day. After considerable opposition the Corporation and the Overseers sanctioned the move...
...result, state officers are nominated by the people and adopt their own platforms, from which the people choose. Then the provision was added to this bill that the state legislators must pledge themselves absolutely to support or ignore the agitation for direct election of United States senators. The next move was to establish the recall, so that the people could discharge those officers who proved faithless to their trust. Immediately a Republican legislature, pledged to direct senatorial election, chose a Democratic senator to support that movement. And next, to remove the great danger of corruption at the direct primaries...
These figures show conclusively that the tendency in the last few years has been to discourage the collection of subscriptions from students and that the abolishing of the practice was not so radical a move as at first thought...
...measured by his power to do this rather than by his power to please. There are two things essential to persuasion: the speaker must know what he is talking about, and he must mean what he says. Eloquence is the speech from heart to heart; a man must be moved in order to move others. If a man knows his subject and is sincere, he cannot fall to be an effective speaker. Clearness, which is a great aid to forceful speaking, aims at stating a truth so plainly that it cannot fail to be understood. If a man disputes...
...best, it can only result in a bowing acquaintance with a score or so of men who you had no idea were members of your class. Moreover, a class has become definitely sifted into groups by Senior year. A man's friends are made and he will inevitably move more or less completely in his own particular circle. The fact that one meets a man in the Yard wearing a class button will rarely serve to do more than to tag him as a member of the Senior class. Incidentally, the caps and gowns accomplish this purpose...