Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual meeting for the award of academic distinctions, held last night in Sanders Theatre, was very successful, chiefly by reason of Owen Wister's notable speech on "Our Country and the Scholar." Deturs were awarded to about thirty men in the first group who had never before received this form of academic recognition, and the names of the principal prize winners and scholars of the past year were read. The music, by the Doctors' Chorus, was exceptionally fine. They gave the "Winter Song" and the "Comrade Song," both by Bullard, and led in the singing of "Fair Harvard...
Deturs will be awarded to men who have won positions in the first group and who have never before received a detur. These deturs are books purchased with the income of a fund established by Edward Hopkins in the seventeenth century. They are bound in red leather with the seal of the University stamped in gold on the cover...
...aimed at proving the cases chosen by his opponents to be sporadic. Butler, closing the debate for the affirmative, said the question was to be looked at from a broad point of view, without taking into consideration mere technicalities. Thus, the so-called Organic Articles of Concordat, though never signed by the Pope, had been in force for 104 years and constituted a status...
...nothing and willing ends in achievement. Because often wishing is not changed into willing there result so many broken vows and half-carried-out resolutions. Our vows are not serious enough; we are more lenient with ourselves than with others, and accept excuses for out broken resolutions that would never be accepted by others. From the Christian point of view a promise and an oath are identical, and a broken resolution and a broken promise are the same morally. The worst aspect of these broken resolutions is that they weaken the will itself and rob it of its kingly power...
...intellect, shining with a steady glow, has been a beacon light to many who seek their way amid the tossing waters that surround us. Loving beauty in literature and in art, and seeing the need of it for the delight of life and the refinement of character, he has never allowed his apostleship of beauty to divert him from the pursuit of goodness and truth...