Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moreover, let me point out to you another thing. The achievement is not only for those who are abnormally gifted...
...note this one thing about that. Just as in David's case the victory is not to the strong. David, as I have said, had the wit to see that there was no use facing a giant by brute force. He could bring no brute force to compare with that of the giant. It was the intelligent use of the means that lay within his reach...
...point out one other thing to you, and that is what we mean by accomplishing something. Are you thinking of reputation? If your idea is reputation, you will get your reward. Reputation is a fairly easy thing to get. A little judicious advertising and a little putting forth of one's self will bring a great deal of reputation. Reward is not necessarily of real value to a man who has a deep, earnest conviction of what he wants to do in life. It is the act which is the life itself, and not the fame of it which...
...when so regarded, the numerous reports of the past year seem to establish one thing and that not very startling. President Lowell once likened a college community to a cross-section of the outside world. Such would seem to be the consensus of opinion of the statisticians although they seldom state it thus. In short, Harvard, or Wisconsin, or Yale,--or any University of like size, -- can not be called a "rich man's college," or a poor man's college or even a middle class college without violating the full character of the community. All classes-financially, morally, intellectually...
...author and coach of the presentation. There will be seven episodes, showing the development in the history of Harvard from the time when Sir Thomas Hollis was a benefactor of the College back in the eighteenth century down through the American Revolution to modern times The whole thing has been very carefully worked up by Professor Baker, and gives a remarkably clear and accurate picture of Hollis Hall and the student life about it at all stages in its history...