Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...strong will. Masses of men have a collective vanity, skilful appeals to which never fall. People are disposed to believe that the majority must be right, and that there is danger in change and innovation. They love equality in one sense and inequality in another. An individual likes to think that he is equal to the next man, but is strongly appealed to by the unusual, by what is pre-eminent or higher than its surroundings. This accounts for many paradoxes in modern life...
...life goes on, the Archbishop said, we constantly learn that it is not always the good questions that get the most immediate answers, and it is not necessarily a good thing to get an immediate answer, provided the question is so put as to make us think. When he was a schoolboy his master, whom he at that time thought a not very wise schoolmaster, used to ask him in which century and in which country he would most have preferred to live. Although at that time his answers varied and were inconsistent, he was sure now. The century would...
...criticised in several communications and two editorials in the Crimson, and no one has offered to justify it. But while opposition to the new plan seems unanimous, no good substitute has been suggested. I too believe that the Committee's decision was unwise and should be reversed; but I think we can do still better than to return to the old policy of supporting minor teams by subscriptions, sometimes with and sometimes without the help of allowances from the Athletic Committee. May not this uncertain and fluctuating financial support be the vital reason we have been seeking for the persistent...
...more subscriptions be taken for any team, except Freshman teams. This step must, I believe, be the starting point of any scheme which can hope to solve in any permanent and satisfactory way this complex question of financing our teams. That the subscription system is a downright nuisance I think every man in College will agree. It is, moreover, a thoroughly ineffective system; for as a result of all the soliciting by the many candidates for managerships, the average amount raised for track, crew and all minor sports together, as shown by the Graduate Manager's reports for the last...
...meet at Boston University this afternoon to receive the official report of the examiners and to proceed to the selection of a scholar. Under the rules prescribed by the trustees, the committee of selection is at liberty to impose upon the candidates such additional tests, if any, as they think suitable in order to arrive at a choice conforming as closely as possible to the objects of the founder. It is therefore possible that no result will be reached in today's meeting...