Word: vast
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Rainsford spoke upon the necessity of clear thought upon religious subjects. The message of university education spells one vast word--freedom. To exercise freedom man must gain knowledge, but he must gain far more--he must gain virtue...
...discussion in the columns of the CRIMSON about the plan for incorporating the Harvard Co-operative Society has been confined to that very small part of the members who take interest enough in the affairs of the Society to come to the annual meeting. The vast majority of the members have not been heard from. These men join the Society because it is a convenient place in Cambridge at which to purchase most of the supplies that students need. They want quick, intelligent service, convenience in getting what they need and the chance to buy goods at lower prices than...
...offices we have named above are temporary. In choosing the Secretary and the Class Committee, however, the class is selecting officers for all its future existence. The position of Secretary means a vast amount of conscientious work of a kind very nearly resembling drudgery, but on which the life of the class depends a great deal. The chairman of the Class Committee presides at all future class dinners. The other members of this committee with the secretary represent the class after graduation, and the character of the class as a unit depends largely on the character of these...
...Revere Frothingham followed Dr. Peabody. No history goes back far enough, he said, to a time when men were not worshipping some God or higher power outside themselves. There has been the religion ot outward mysticism, that worshipped the woods and sky and stars and sea, because they were vast and awful and unknown, and there has been the religion of introspection, of brooding over the mysteries of men's own souls; and lastly there has been the religion of work. This is the religion of which Jesus spoke when he said: "My Father worketh hitherto and I work...
...become. Every effort should be made to break it up amongst college men. Any student who goes to a hotel where he receives his board for nothing, even though at the invitation of some friend, is likely to place himself under suspicion if he plays baseball. There is a vast difference between playing ball for one's own amusement and playing it for the entertainment of boarders at a summer resort...