Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...would rather split his ship and fall into the hands of God than into the hands of Spain." Fighting now is done with great soulless machines. There is no hope or purpose or meaning in it. "War has lost the vitality that it once had; it is a dead thing, a peril to the social body...
Oyez,--Hoeren Sie, Signore--and the same thing in all the other languages in the calendar. This is the day of days, the climax of climaxes, the very summa of cum laudes...
Following President Lowell. Dean Thayer spoke on "Law as a Profession." In preparation for law, he said, it is necessary to do two things in College: first, to make oneself an educated man, and second, to learn how to work. After explaining and supporting both of these statements, he stated that he urged men especially to do one thing: to become masters of English, in a ready, strong, and eloquent expression of the mother tongue. Beyond this, the classics are as good a training for the law as are the social sciences or anything else...
...should like to point out a few facts in connection with the movement recently rejuvenated by the Junior class, toward installing electric lights in Hollis, Holworthy, North Matthews, Stoughton, and Thayer. It is a thing which many former classes have tried to accomplish, and one that will inevitably come. Great stress has been laid lately on the idea of making the Senior dormitories more attractive; here is certainly an opportunity to do so. It would be a gift which would last as long as the buildings themselves, as a memorial to the present generation in college...
President Eliot's first point against the religions of India, China and Japan is that they have not reached any spiritual conception of the deity. Now if it is meant that the man on the street has not such a conception, we can say the same thing of any country, Christian or pagan. But if it is meant that even the thoughtful members of Asiatic communities have not had such a conception, either at present or in the past, this would betray an absolute ignorance of the Bhaktidoctrine of India which has been in existence there ever since...