Word: tend
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...produce more, rather than that he may enjoy what he has already produced. Man's egotism is opposed by his will and turned into altruism, and his intelligence, which distinguishes him from other members of the animal kingdom and raises him to the realm of a divine being tends to offset his lack of efficiency in producing happiness. As the intelligence is developed, the human race will tend to become a "race of gods," which is the ultimate end of the universe...
...ones who are pursuing specialties to the point of narrowness, and the loafers whose exploiting of the elective system leads to mastery of no subject. The specialist will be required to broaden out; the student in pursuit of "snap" courses will be required to concentrate. Both processes will tend to the same end--the turning out of well-rounded men, equally ready to enter on their life-work or to pursue their studies in a graduate school...
...fact is established that whenever men as individuals are free to work, to earn, and to save and use their earnings as they deem fit, the capable everywhere tend to rise to prosperity. Skillful men are always in demand at good wages. Thus as the moral side is also developed by individualism and competition, the strongest characters are secured...
...CRIMSON believes it worth while to call the attention of the University to the Phillips Brooks House Association. We are all aware of its existence, and we stand for its fundamental aims; but we tend to forget that it is no mere self-operating mechanism. Upon its temper and efficiency is staked the reputation of Harvard in more than one place, yet its usefulness is great or small according only to the intelligence and energy of the support which it receives from the student body...
...complete the requirements in three years, while four-year residents should be obliged to take a degree with distinction or fail, would remove most of the difficulties, provided that degree were brought within the reach of the average man after four years' moderate work. Such an innovation would certainly tend to heighten the intellectual standard of the entire College. In addition, the honor degree would in all probability prove so much more valuable and asset as to induce the majority of those who are now graduated in three years to stay on; Senior year would no longer be more pleasure...