Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although the measure has been disposed of, the situation is unchanged. In spite of five holidays and plans for festive Mondays, neither anthracite nor bituminous is more plentiful. The coal question remains a serious thing. It was thought that the Student Council's plan of early retiring and early rising would contribute Harvard's small share to the solution of this problem. The student body has thought otherwise. Among the opponents of this plan there were heard those who condemned official action and advocated individual effort. Let every individual have it as his duty to economize coal and its derivatives...
...feel that the writer has overlooked much that is worthy in this scheme. It is not advocated that students go to bed late and get up early. The idea is rather to go to bed earlier and get up early. We admit that habits are a difficult thing to change, but we rather rely on the inherent rationality of man. There are 1,681 undergraduates in College. If only half of them realized that to get up an hour earlier and do good work meant getting to bed an hour earlier, this would mean the saving of 840 hours...
...grievance of American young men that they are considered infants by their elders until they have passed middle age is altogether too well founded. A young man's ability is a difficult thing to make recognized per se. This is especially true in so conservative a business as our national government, where we can point to few men of tender years holding positions of responsibility. We have not had too many William Pitts or Lord John Russells. An exception to this rule, however, is our Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, who will speak on the Navy...
...Eddy in his remarks. "We must have reality of faith, conviction that the hand of God has marked out a path for us to follow," he said. "We cannot tell what may happen. It is even conceivable that we may lose this war, and that is a thing for you to ponder well. Yet even so, great things have come from periods of loss, of chaos and of defeat...
...private ownership and competition under Government supervision which has controlled the railroads of the country for the past generation. The plan which he set forth in his proclamation was received with approval by the bankers of the country, and was willingly acceded to by the roads as the best thing to be done in the present unprecedented circumstances...