Word: showing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...third argument goes to show that the real achievements of genius are merely due to the development of the past generations and not to any especial skill of the individual. The fourth statement closely resembled the third, alleging that inventions, due to the development of the times and not to genius, were due the country at large, and not individuals. The fallacy of these last two statements is easily seen, when it is considered how many men there were in Shakespeare's time, who enjoyed the same conditions under which he worked, but how few real Shakespeares there were...
...least object to a sport because it is rough. Rowing, baseball, lacrosse, track and field games, hockey, football, are all of them good. Moreover, it is to my mind simple nonsense, a mere confession of weakness, to desire to abolish a game because tendencies show themselves, or practices grow up, which prove that the game ought to be reformed. Take football for instance. The preparatory schools are able to keep football clean and to develop the right spirit in the players without the slightest necessity ever arising to so much as consider the question of abolishing it. There...
...genuine equality of opportunity for all men so far as it can be brought about, and who wishes, as far as foreign matters are concerned, to see this nation treat all other nations, great and small with respect, and if need be with generosity, and at the same time show herself able to protect herself by her own might from any wrong at the hands of any outside power. Each man here should feel that he has no excuse, as a citizen in a democratic republic like ours, if he fails to do his part in the government...
Your college training confers no privilege upon you save as tested by the use you make of it. It puts upon you the obligation to show yourselves better able to do certain things than your fellows who have not had your advantages. If it has served merely to make you believe that you are to be excused from effort in after life, that you are to be excused from contact with the actual world of men and events, then it will prove a curse and not a blessing...
...ushers are required to show both membership and special tickets before being admitted to the building. The ushers must report at 12.30 o'clock and receive badges. No badges will be held. 1907 men report to H. Foster, Jr., 1908 men to H. Gilmore, 1909 men to F. H. Burr, and 1910 men to R. C. Brown, D. G. Field will act as head usher...