Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...racial patriotism is rising rapidly, with the consequent danger of the conflict of the non-Christians with the Christians. At the same time there has been a growth of the dangerous influences of the non-Christian world upon our own. Here again, it is our duty to prevent any continuation. But instead of having paganism to fight against, we must work against an objectionable form of syncretism and eclecticism. The taking of half-truths of Christianity with half-truths of non-Christian beliefs, makes a combination far more dangerous and far more difficult to remedy than paganism...
...snow yesterday. And if it does not snow more than seven days a week in the next week or two there will be tennis playing. At least there will be many desirous of playing the game. But it is certain that the usual overcrowding of courts will prevent full accommodation...
...accept the proviso that opportunity should be left for the election of men to the Society on the basis of final honors, for these are, as well as marks, definite indications of scholarship. For the rest, however, we hold that only cases of dishonesty should prevent the choice of men in order of their standing...
...five men who have not yet sent in their class lives will be given the same extension. Saturday will be positively the last day on which either lives or photograph sittings will be accepted. For the last time the Committee urges delinquent Seniors to attend to these matters and prevent the recurrence of last year's unfortunate outcome when several neglected Seniors begged the committee in vain to put into the Class Album the lives and pictures they had neglected to hand in on time...
...closing his speech President Eliot mentioned the suggestions he made to the Carnegie endowment as a basis for profitable expenditure. These are: first, to create and support agencies competent to prevent or reduce wrongs and miseries which cause war; secondly, to strengthen public opinion in favor of publicity in government affairs; thirdly, to probe all secrets in administration, industries and legislation; fourthly, to cultivate in all nations a public spirit, and to encourage the devotion of private money to public uses; fifthly, to create and foster agencies such as hospitals, training schools and technical schools in countries where they...