Word: things
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...United States there are two great dangers which threaten its welfare. One of these dangers is discontent. Education carries with it powerful advantages, but it has this one disadvantage of promoting discontent. Yet this is not without reason for by education we create a condition of want; the thing that differentiates mankind is want; and there is no civilization without want. We must face our own problem then and deal with it accordingly. There is no sudden way to stop this condition, but there is a way for men to alleviate it. Discontent there will be, but we can lessen...
...seems to me in consideration of the interest which the students have taken in this building, that they ought to have the opportunity of contributing towards its ornamentation. It will be a home for many of them and they would naturally like to feel that they had given some thing towards its completion. They could appropriately provide by subscription for the extra cost of the carving in wood and stone at the Harvard end of the living room, or for any other form of ornament considered necessary by the architect. The plain wainscoting has already been generously provided...
Probably the best thing in the paper, however, is "A Song for Autumn" by R. M. Green. It is a delicate bit of verse and so musical as to suggest Tennyson,-particularly the songs in "The Princess...
...reason why it should not be so. The most important factor for its success is to have the plans drawn up by some one who thoroughly understands the construction of an ice-rink. If the students could be certain that the rink was to be an assured thing; that it was going to be large enough and well enough construct-to permit good skating for all its members--there is little doubt but that it would receive the financial support that would be necessary. UNDERGRADUATE...
...they should cover a considerable space of time. Second, the distinction must be kept in mind between "average" and "arithmetical mean." Third, in dealing with percentages the basic numbers must be carefully considered. Fourth, there is great danger in the use of concomitants; that is, arguing that one thing results from another because it is contemporaneous...