Word: useful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Avenel said that the great revolution of modern times is the change in opinion, first about things which can be possessed and second, about the extent of possession. Individual ownership in the Middle Ages was less complete than nowadays. Ownership was taken for use and special formalities were performed to make possessions secure. All land was the common property of anyone who could use it, sometimes gratis, sometimes for a trivial payment...
...Delta Upsilon Fraternity will produce Beaumont and Fletcher's "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" for their annual play. The performance will be patterned as closely as possible on the method of production in use in the Elizabethan period; and therefore no scenery will be used, and a certain number of spectators in costume will have seats on the stage...
...Athletic Committee respectively, and one has been placed in the Weld and the other in the Newell boathouse. They were built by Davy of Cambridge, and are heavier and more durable than the shells usually constructed for the University and Freshman crew each year. These shells will be used by two of the first upperclass crews this spring and the other first upperclass crew will have a shell used by a University crew of recent date, probably either the 1905 or 1906 boat. Two more new shells for the University and Freshman eights are being built by Davy...
...call attention to a series of addresses on the Christian Ministry as a profession which have been arranged by the Harvard Divinity Club? A considerable number of undergraduates are thinking of the ministry as a possible use of their lives, and there are many others to whom discussions of the place of the Ministry in Modern life ought to be of value. For all such these lectures have been designed. The first is to be given tomorrow at 8 o'clock in the Common Room of Divinity Hall, when Rev. Dr. George A. Gordon of the Old South Church, Boston...
...first states that, although inequalities in ability exist and give rise to inventions, these should be common property, and not exclusively a source of wealth to the few who happen to find them. Mr. Mallock showed that such intricate inventions as are frequent nowadays would be of no use to men of limited capacity, as they could not understand their uses. Only minds fitted by education can profit by extensive discoveries...