Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While it is perfectly comprehensible that the sort of thing which occurred at Concord and Bridgewater should arouse a considerable amount of justifiable anxiety on the part of the public, it is nevertheless the duty of authorities whose only excuse for existence is to prevent disease and suffering, to judge such situations on the basis of eventual good to the community as a whole, and not allow a well-proven instrument of preventive medicine to be destroyed or neglected because of an accident the cause of which is known and therefore under control...
...There is one thing I wish the CRIMSON would advocate," he concluded. "That is an 8 o'clock bell instead of a 7. In these modern times, 7 o'clock is a little too early for the boys to get up, and entirely too early for the bell-ringer...
...seven o'clock requires the most difficult technique--the English stroke, which may appear somewhat complicated to the uninitiated. The number of strokes at this hour however is not specified and conflicting reports estimate it at from fifty to seventy-two. The significant thing about the seven o'clock bell is that the bellringer dislikes it at least as much as do the students. The average undergraduate soon acquires the habit of sleeping tranquilly until about eight-thirty, bell or no bell--but there is the poor bellringer, tugging away at the stubborn rope, shortly after the coldest hour...
Tradition is a wonderful thing--but many more inspiring traditions than a seven o'clock eye-opener have passed into oblivion. It is no longer considered quite the thing to demolish Mr. Conant's impregnable iron door and freeze the bell full of water--chiefly because it is no longer necessary to do this in order to avoid Chapel. But if it ever was desirable or necessary to arise at seven o'clock, that time like the days of one-horse shays and tallow candles, has fled. Pity the dexterous but unfortunate bellringer forever doomed to face the world while...
...positive definitely constructive mind that leads, and not the merely receptive, the merely critical, nor even the vaguely creative, however inspired by genius. It is the mind that sees something to be done not done before, and the way or various available ways to the accomplishing of the new thing. And in Dr. Eliot's hands mere facts, mere statistics, the vast fruits of his own and others' research, do not remain sheer knowledge, but are utilized as soon as practicable, being converted by him from dead data into raw material for the manufacture of new and living experiments...