Word: say
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cent. increase in the salaries of the teaching staff, which has been struggling along with truly admirable self-denial on the scale established 14 years ago. For this we must raise no less than $12,000,000, to yield an income of $600,000. It is fair to say that 90 per cent. of the teachers of the University can not live without personal sacrifice on the salaries paid them as teachers...
...emphasized the need of the development of industrial chemistry. Scientists also say that the greatest opportunity for scientific developments within the next 25 years lies in chemistry. It is important to build up the chemical department of the university; for the purpose of employing new professors and instructors; an endowment of $1,000,000 furnishing $50,000, is necessary...
...first time in over fifteen years, every room in every dormitory owned by the University has been rented with the exception of a few rooms in one or two small houses in Holyoke street that have just been opened. The offices of the agents for the privately-owned dormitories say that there are few rooms left which have not been taken by students...
...seventy years hence, as Harvard men meet here, what will they say of our present American effort to ensure the peace of the world through a League of Nations? Will they call it right or wrong? Poetry, we may be sure, will take the long view...
...being liberty, is a clear infringement of the liberties of other people, as it subjects them to definite inconveniences and restraints, if not sufferings. Even the man who becomes passively drunk, quite apart from harming himself, is cheating society out of his usefulness. It is all very well to say that free government is better than good government, and that prohibition is an infringement of private liberty. But when liberty has become to a large extent license, and that license is of a type to stunt and inhibit progress by destroying the effectiveness of a definite number of human beings...