Word: right
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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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...
...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...
...whole subject of orators and oratory contains much of great importance to you all. As future voters of this country you should have interest in oratory. To be able to stand on your feet and hold your own, to object to a wrong, to advance a right; all these you must do. The great men whom I have known exerted an influence and you are now to succeed them. That generation has passed off the stage. You must take their place...
...plan of holding a Senior Dance the night before Class Day is move in the right direction. If, as is probable, a ball game is arranged for the afternoon before, the interval between this and the dance will be the most natural time for many of the spreads which have heretofore come on Class Day and have made the day too crowded. At the same time the Class Day exercises proper, comprising the exercises at Sanders Theatre, the Tree Exercises, and the illumination of the Yard in the evening, will remain the same as in former years...
...call attention to the voting lists posted at University and in Memorial. If a man has a right to take part in Class Day, he may have a vote by applying to one of the Class Day Committee...