Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some sort of link between them [the two countries], so long will some of us persist in using that language of frank and familiar rebuke which (however mistakenly) is supposed to be proper between relatives. If we could bring ourselves to think of America as a great foreign power with which we are on friendly terms, but which expects to be treated and will treat us just like another foreign power, then these troubles might be avoided...
...class of 1918 or subsequent classes who has accepted election before the Friday following the fourth Monday after the opening of college in his Sophomore year to any other social club or society which takes in less than 100 members from a college class. The Advisory Committee shall have power to determine what organizations come within the meaning of this rule...
...There are very few people who would-not like to have the power to write," continued Mr. Ellsworth, "and to write so that other people would want to read them, as we want to read Mark Twain and Stevenson and H. G. Wells. How can you learn to do it? I asked Barrett Wendell once,--he was a professor of English literature at Harvard for a quarter of a century, if he knew a way, and this is what he wrote...
...there is something more, something beyond this acquired power of intellectual labor. As Shakspere puts it: "The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation." How is that treasure won? It comes from living with honor, on honor. Most of you have begun already to live honorably, and honored; for the life of honor begins early. Some things the honorable man cannot do, never does. He never wrongs or degrades a woman. He never oppresses or cheats a person weaker or poorer than himself. He never betrays a trust. He is honest, sincere, candid, and generous. It is not enough...
...place of learning. Well, you cannot help breathing, and you cannot help growing, these processes will take care of themselves. The question for you from day to day is how to learn to work to advantage, and college is the place and now is the time to win mental power. And, lastly, live today and every day like a man of honor