Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...effect than the present action of the Board is likely to have? We doubt if the Faculty has done all that it might to awaken men to a sense of their real duties in such cases. So long as the man who does not copy smiles pleasantly on his neighbor who does, no threats of separation from the University will kill out the practice...
...feel it his duty to come out. Harvard won twice last year, and ought to win again. As the debaters of last year will none of them compete, there will be three entirely new men chosen. Every man should feel that he has as good a chance as his neighbor...
...enough on ordinary occasions, makes himself particularly obnoxious at this time of the year, when the final examinations are in full swing. We refer to the man who, not content with the privileges offered him by the library, is willing to sacrifice his own self respect and discommode his neighbor, by abusing these privileges to his utmost. It is a common occurrence when you wish to consult some reserved books in the departmental alcoves, to find some grasping individual in the same course comfortably seated with all the desirable volumes piled up before him, to be read at his convenience...
...Scandinavian did not conduct himself toward his state as an American does. He did for it only what he was forced to do. He exalted very high his duty to himself. His hand was always against his neighbor if it would be to his advantage. It is not strange that such a narrow way of looking at the world should produce an exaggerated self respect. With this went a great regard for personal strength and courage. If for any reason their qualities failed he had a regard for intellectual strength. He admired trickiness and cleverness reaching almost to dishonesty...
...dealing with the great social problems. The need of offering instruction on the subject of the workings of society is one to which the college seems to be opening its eyes. It is high time it did so, for in this time when the relations between man and his neighbor are becoming so complicated, the place to which men look for a scientific investigation of the problem is the greatest university in the country. Moreover, if the object of education, as has been said, is to breed good citizens, what part of a citizens education can be more important than...