Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...appointed to the position he has now relinquished. The treasurership, which entails the entire management of the capital and income of the University, requires both close application and rare executive qualities. With a lack of either of these qualifications in its treasurer the University is hampered in broadening its sphere of influence and usefulness. Under Mr. Hooper's supervision maladministration has been far from retarding Harvard's expansion...
...When he resigned in 1894, he was at the head of a body of eight, of whom five were devoted wholly to teaching Latin and the others equally to teaching Latin and Greek. Although from his natural conservatism he had taken little interest in the reform by which the sphere of his power as a teacher was thus enlarged, he availed himself to the utmost of his new opportunities and opened his rich store of erudition without stint to all who were capable of appreciating them. His sparkling wit was ever ready to illuminate dark corners in even the abstrusest...
This is an entirely wrong conception; the moral idea must be sovereign in every sphere. One profession especially in which the ethical impulse is noticeably lacking is that of journalism. It is said that the tone is low because that is what the people want; but this excuse would justify any crime, from the Crucifixion to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The voice of the people is the voice of God only when it accords with the conscience of a good man, and those who preach divorce between business and righteousness are not friends of the republic...
...importance and value, to the members as well as to the objects of their interest, and are every year getting to be a more necessary part of the University life. The creation of the office of General Secretary is amply justified by the natural growth in the Association's sphere of work; with such an official to give the greater part of his attention to the affairs of the organization there is every reason to believe that it can extend its influence and actual work considerably next year on the same general lines as laid down in the past...
...thanks of all are due to President Eliot and to Professor Hollis not only for their clear and much-needed explanation of the attitude of the Corporation and the Athletic Committee toward undergraduate athletics, but also for some wholesome advice as to the proper sphere and methods of carrying on athletics. To judge from the spirt of criticism in regard to some questions which has been notice recently in Cambridge, these relations have never until now been clearly understood, and the Harvard Union has done us all a real service in arranging for last night's talk...