Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...report of the Library Committee of the Union has brought again to the attention of the University a state of affairs which becomes more and more disgraceful every year. Although the Committee has done everything in its power to permit unrestricted use of the library facilities by allowing books to be taken to various parts to the building, the members have grossly abused their privileges, and 73 volumes have been reported as missing from April, 1908, to January 1, 1909. It is charitable to suppose that when these volumes were removed, their readers intended to return them sooner or later...
...spite of the recent advances made by business and engineering, the law continues to enlist in its service a large proportion of Harvard men. Because of the power and position of the lawyer in the community and because law is often considered an invaluable aid to political advancement, the profession has always appealed strongly to college graduates, and an added inducement has been offered to members of this University by the pre-eminence of the Harvard Law School...
Robert Grant '73 then read a poem contrasting athletic glory in undergraduate life with scholarly glory in after-life. He began by satirizing the undergraduate's attitude in regard to athletics and scholarship, and closed by citing the tremendous power which the trained mind has in the world...
...Mead spoke last night on "The United States as a World Power" under the auspices of the Patria Society in the Assembly Room of the Union...
...Mead said that the early statesmen set a high ideal for this country as a world power,--an ideal which the country has cherished until today it is the greatest among the family of nations...