Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...late Samuel Hoar '67, field at East Cambridge last Friday, provided for the following gifts to the University: $5,000 to be added to the principal of the scholarship of the class of 1867; and $25,000 to be used for such purposes as the Corporation may think best; bequests being payable on the death of his wife. In reference to the last gift, he said: "I make this latter gift in memory of my brother, Sherman Hoar, who in lavish fulfillment of those high ideals which he found in his native town and in the teachings of his Alma...
...nomination ballots the following question has been put which voters are requested to answer: Do you think it advisable to have the undergraduate dues of the Union put on the term-bill, if it could be arranged...
...were to pick out a single phrase or sentence among all the phrases and expressions of affection that I have received. I think I should pick out the words at the end of the inscription on the loving cup that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences gave to me, because those words express what seems to me to be the absolute ideal of American society. They said that I had done something for justice, for progress, and for truth. Are not those the real Harvard ideals,--the ideals of us all? Is there any progress, political or social, that...
Those who think of joining any of the above parties are requested to consult the instructors named at as early a date as practicable...
...work in so far as the style is special to his thought. If his ideas are conventional and derived, his style will draw upon outworn terms and "literary slang." His problem is to know his own meaning exactly and to express it in his own personal way. To think independently and to phrase freshly, because specifically, is his success. Such seem to be the conclusions suggested significantly by these articles...