Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...therefore, to see our honest convictions victorious, and while the eleven is doing its best to win at Springfield next Saturday, the college ought to support any measure which will further fair play in college athletics. As for a dual league, that question must be settled later. The first thing to be done is to secure the purity of intercollegiate athletics...
...work and examine systems deemed defective. They must study the grievances and their causes, and they will then, and only then see the evil as it really is. But for a reformer to devote himself to all reforms would be a senseless task. He must choose some single thing which he thinks needs reforming and do his best to bring about the desired reform. He must not work alone, however; he must join a small body of men, who have the same objects in view, and their combined efforts are bound to bear good fruit. Behind these small bodies there...
...advantage of this is that candidates will enter the struggle on equal terms. Furthermore election contests are to be decided in court and not by legislatures; in court a man can get the best possible hearing, and is bound to have his case decided on its own merits, a thing legislatures do not always do. The penalty for bribery is increased to a great extent so that a candidate returned unfairly can be unseated and a new election held...
...European nations were then settled in almost the same bounds as today; The Catholic religion was established, and the feudal system evolved order out of the social chaos. Under the union of the papacy and the empire men as men did not exist; there was no such thing as individual liberty; a man existed only as a member of a body. And yet it was through these institutions that the nations breathed their sincerest faith and highest aspirations. The great epic of this period is the Nioelungen Leid, and it is as characteristic of this epoch as is the Elder...
...informed, some of the very best seats were sent into the city to be sold at the Athletic and the Somerset clubs. It is easy of course to see the motive which prompted the action, and yet it would seem an injustice to the students that such a thing should be done. College athletics are for them more than for the graduates and certainly more than for the fashionable club man. If, therefore, there are any privileges in an athletic line they certainly seem to us to belong first of all to the students. When outsiders take so large...