Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...against by every means in our power, when a policy is taking shape that is bound to alter all the national ideals that we have cultivated hitherto. Let us refuse to be bound over night by proclamation, or hypnotized by sacramental phrases through the day. Let us consult our reason as to what is best, and then exert ourselves as citizens with all our might...
Just a year ago two hundred and fiftysix men met in Massachusetts Hall in response to a call for candidates for the University track and field team. This was the largest number that had ever come out to train for a Harvard team. There is every reason why this number should be exceeded at the meeting tonight. Of the twenty-six hundred men in the Cambridge departments of the University, there are certainly more than one man in ten who have the time and capacity to undertake the training which candidates for this team will undergo, and who would...
...fall concert in Sanders Theatre. Inasmuch as there will be no Christmas trip this year, the clubs have decided to make the fall concert, in a way, a more memorable occasion than usual, by reviving the custom of having a dance in Memorial Hall after the concert. For this reason the musical programme will be somewhat shorter than usual. It is as follows...
Whatever else we have, there certainly ought to be non-partisanship in city affairs. There is no reason why local voting should be influenced by the national elections or why Democrats and Republicans should not sit side by side in the legislature, for offices are not sought here for private services, but should be filled by the most competent...
There never can be one creed wide enough to cause dogmatic unity. Ritual unity demands universal assent to certain rites, but different men demand different rites. The same reason applies to ecclesiastical unity and its impossibility. The various divisions of the church express and satisfy the religious differences of men. The different sects are, however, slowly changing and approaching each other. All denominations are in a sense transient, reflecting as they do the necessities of the social mind and life, and they change with time. The extreme peculiarities are first modified, and thus it is that the sects are drawing...