Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...constantly increasing. To the crowd it seems that things must ever remain as they are; it is the part of the leader to see things as they ought to be. The fear of change makes the ordinary man draw back-the fear of being thought eccentric, or of being thrust into obscurity by the crowd. It is the Christian watchword that responsibility rests on the individual. Wills have been given us-let us use them. Fate, heredity, chance,-these do not affect the freedom of the will. It is a ship opposed by the contrary winds of fate, heredity...
...that the three Deans will serve as its three Faculty members, brings relief to every Harvard man who is at all interested in the welfare of our athletics. Whether or not the Deans will find their new duties too irksome when combined with the many other details of administration thrust upon them, the experience of next year will show. We admire their good intentions in accepting the appointment; but we doubt whether they will have the time at their disposal to make the most efficient members of an active committee. There should be a number of important changes...
...direction. In this way not only would the financial side of our athletics be cared for by a man who would be willing to put his whole time into the work, but the members of the Athletic Committee would be relieved of the clerical and office work now thrust upon them. All matters of well-known detail, such as the approval of schedules, etc., would be settled by the permanent treasurer, who would pass up to the Committee only the larger questions as to our athletic policy with regard to other colleges, the general way in which our own athletics...
...Regnier, Saturday afternoon, was on "A New School of Poetry, the Decadents and the Symbolists." Poetry in France had been in great peril from the ever rising wave of naturalism and realism, to which all the poets were making concessions. But when the needed reaction came, poetry was thrust aside, and the poets, accepting their solitude, broke apart into groups. This was the situation in 1880 and it was a serious one as it tended to the establishment of a perilous byzantinism. The young poets of 1885 had a peculiar and a strange language. Even after they had corrected their...