Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fact that the Junior dinner will not take place until March 30 is no reason why the majority of the class of Ninety-eight should delay signing the blue-book at Leavitt and Peirce's and securing their tickets until the day before the dinner. In past years this has been the case with a considerable number of Juniors and on account of not knowing how many to provide for, the committee on arrangements has always had an unnecessary amount of trouble at the last minute. Thus far a ridiculously small percentage of the class has signified its intention...
...performance was not especially high, several men competed who, with steady practice, can materially strengthen the Mott Haven team this spring, and especially in the dual games. Although these competitions are of benefit in arrousing interest in shot putting, those who do poorly in them at first have no reason for discouragement. After all, as past experience shows, only steady, careful practice brings any decided improvement in the game, and with this kind of practice new men have been known to add as much as seven or eight feet to their records in a single season...
Take the way by which these colonies were separated from England. One of two ways of progress was possible, either by right reason or by revolution. The revolutionary method prevailed. The result was the immediate loss of much Anglo-Saxon blood. Again, Turgot's efforts to bring about a gradual development of political liberty in France were of no avail against the ultra-conservatives and the Revolution followed. Even in the case of our Civil War, Henry Clay and other statesmen saw it was inevitable that slavery and freedom must conflict many years before the crisis came and they sought...
...things to be avoided and considered. Avoid urging changes foreign to our habits, customs and thought. It will do harm. Recognize the value of the cultivation of righteousness and morality. Strive to secure progress toward a better and nobler future by processes evolutionary rather than revolutionary, by appeals to reason rather than to prejudice. Be true to yourself, your University and your country...
...here last fall and saw the facilities in the University for rowing he expressed his surprise that so few should take up the sport. In the English universities a very large percentage of the students go in for rowing whether they make their college crews or not and one reason that the Cambridge and Oxford crews are so fast is that they are the pick of such large numbers of men. Every move toward introducing this condition of things at Harvard is to be welcomed as a step in the right direction...