Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nothing in this world, and if we could, it wouldn't be worth much. Every day we pay some sort of coin for the things we want--and that without a murmur! If reading is one of the things we want most--well, just between us, don't you think the fellow who begs "No time for reading!" usually means "No inclination"--whether he knows that is what he means or not? Daily Illini
...Regiment Band has done a great deal for Harvard University both last year in the Regiment and this fall at the football games. Without doubt the presence of the band at the Yale Bowl will be an enormous asset and men should think of this now instead of when it is too late. It will cost about five hundred dollars to pay the entire expenses of taking the fifty musicians down to New Haven, Buy a red handkerchief, drop a quarter in a collection box, or contribute at the mass meeting; only remember the Band...
...that it may proceed at once with important undertakings, illustrates, among other things, the marvellous advance that has taken place in the conception of the mission and scope of higher education since the days of John Harvard and Eli Yale. The college founder or president who used to think in terms of thousands is now thinking in terms of millions and tens of millions. Christian Science Monitor...
...joyous annual exchange of gifts. No human interest like Christmas! Once it did not exist at all in New England! It was necessary to create it. It was created, and it filled the bill. It came in response to a demand of the human heart. There are those who think that a mere universal exchange of gifts most of which nobody wants, is a foolish institution; but the fact remains that our people once did not have it, and deliberately introduced it in its plentitude. They find it somehow well worth while, and they will cling to it. The ordinary...
...chance to even thank the gentleman who gave it, but I think he was a real hero and under the circumstances an exceptional one. How many, I wonder, in an election bustle of young people, would have thought of a little boy, even if they had noticed him. This was in itself a remarkable thing...