Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...regulation which keeps members of the graduate schools out of University athletics has so many advantages that it should on no account be abolished, but an exception to it should be made for the sake of men who qualify for their degrees in three years. Such men may wish to enter one of the graduate departments in their fourth year at Cambridge, but if they do so they are debarred from playing on the University teams. In other College activities they are considered Seniors, while as regards athletics they are treated as graduates. On the other hand, if the pressure...
...road by consideration and kindness for all those with whom he came in contact. In the capacity of officer of a bank in Lincoln, Nebraska, he spent $1,100,000 of his private wealth to prevent its failure, solely because he felt the bank should be saved for the sake of the country. This case of an individual's advancing so vast a sum for the sake of the community is entirely without parallel...
...provide intellectual training. There are ways and ways of bringing this about, of course, but the fundamental way on which Harvard University as well as most of the universities of today was founded, is to provide a wholesome and keen enthusiasm for serious mental effort for the sake of the people who enter its doors. Other activities and aspects of the life have their value, largely in proportion to the moderation with which they are practiced, but it remains for the intellectual efforts and ambitions to be the basis for a college's real excuse for existence...
...postponed from Friday, December 11, to Wednesday, December 16, in order that defeated candidates for the offices of Marshals and Treasurer may be eligible for that office; the polls will remain open until 6 o'clock in the afternoon, instead of 5 o'clock; a slight alteration, for the sake of clearness, has been made in Section 5 (a) in regard to voters...
...winning crew and baseball nine, and tonight it is entertaining the members of the football squad. Occasions such as these, where graduates and undergraduates meet on a common footing as Harvard men, furnish some of the most delightful memories of a college career, and we hope for the sake of the various teams at least, that this pleasant custom will be continued...