Word: powers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...about two-thirds completed, and will be ready for occupation by the first of January, 1906. Although, owing to difficulty in procuring sufficiently large block of marble, the work has been somewhat delayed, the walls and roofs of all the building-except the Administration building and the power house are now finished...
There is the usual grist of light jingles; an accurate and appropriate editorial with just a touch of joviality; special notices and printed notes of average entertaining power; some rules for the deportment of Freshmen at beer nights,--excellent if seriously meant; a timely satire upon our besetting sin of megalomania; and a truly amusing "take-off" of Mr. Walter Camp's "last words" on football...
...Every field is open if you seek the gate, and that once Opened, you can win power at will. You have found in your books, which are faithful, delightful companions, your remedy for loneliness, your solace for grief or pain, your freedom from tormenting cares, your subject for stimulating intercourse with your friends. Sharpen your tools and plough deep in this rich field of literature, art, science and philosophy, under the guidance of our noble teachers of Harvard University, who long to help you, but who can do it only if you choose...
...unite the great organizations of labor and capital, journalists who care more for truth than for subscribers, doctors who are regardless of fees won in practice--men, in short, who care more for principles than for victory, and who must have implicit faith in a hidden power which is constantly working for the ultimate victory of good...
...aside from its spiritual and religious power, we should appreciate the literary value of a book written at a time when the English language was strongest and purest. By constant intimacy with the Bible, by mastering it and being mastered by it, we shall find that our power of expression is immensely increased in the possession of such a glorious store of literature...