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...plan and achievement so vain. The law of requital is the law of the feud, whereby hate for the enemy is born and fostered in generation after generation, till the sum of accumulated hate will end in equal destruction. It is the law of the mob, which strives to repay by brutal sin the commission of a brutal sin. The talonic justice that demands suffering for the offender equal to that which he has inflicted is an outworn creed, fit only for the equity of barbarians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEMPER TALIO | 5/31/1917 | See Source »

...names of such places might be multiplied indefinitely A few hours devoted to visiting some of the more famous will amply repay anyone by a heightened interest in his surroundings and a sharpened sense of observation. It might be mentioned that the empty and profitless Sunday afternoons of winter will soon be here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEGLECTED AMERICAN TRADITIONS | 11/2/1916 | See Source »

...will commence immediately. This consists mainly of soliciting advertisements and subscriptions, with a small amount of office work, and the general business efficiency shown is taken into account. The training in and knowledge of business customs acquired in a competition of this sort are enough in themselves to amply repay for the time put into it. The successful candidates will be chosen shortly after Christmas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS CANDIDATES OUT | 9/27/1915 | See Source »

President Lowell's annual report, which the CRIMSON prints this morning, will repay the study of every member of the University. The report shows that the University in the past year has grown in many ways, and that the device carved on one of its gates, "Enter to Grow in Wisdom" is not an idle one, for increased opportunities for such growth are always being added. But President Lowell does not make his report merely a series of verbal boquets. He points out several matters which stand in need of change and improvement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. | 1/28/1915 | See Source »

...club. The coaching given by the leader and coach of the University Glee Club will be of extreme value to anyone hoping to make the University Glee Club during the next year. During the spring there will be five or six concerts in and around Cambridge which should help repay the men for their efforts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trials for Glee Club Tonight | 2/27/1913 | See Source »

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