Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...carrying out its purposes in a most satisfactory manner. Something more, therefore, than a vague charge of "looseness of organization" is necessary before the institution is forever laid aside. It is easy to make indefinite and unsubstantiated charges, but we must not overlook the fact that the Society has as a "co-operative" society accumulated a large capital, built up a strong credit, and has on the whole proved satisfactory to the students. If it is necessary to incorporate, incorporation should be effected in such a manner as to leave the institution still in the control of the members. They...
...special virtue of the student or of the scholar, and has no more connection with the University than with life elsewhere. Yet thought rather than action is our object here, and so "truth" may be our peculiar motto. The man in public life, for instance, is obliged to overlook minor agreements of opinion in order to put his general theory in practice. For effective public action, compromise with fellow workers is necessary, but the conditions in public life, making compromise necessary, do not favor the pursuit of pure truth. Therefore, why should scholars fall into parties? In action, he that...