Word: vast
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...essential purpose of the Harvard Union to afford a social opportunity within the reach of all Harvard men. This has been the authorized statement from the very start, and if it means anything less than this, a vast amount of beautiful talk has been worse than wasted. And if this is the fundamental object, this consideration should govern the annual dues, rather than any notion of what might be desirable in other respects. Economy is an absolute necessity in any general college enterprise. The self-supporting student who carries his own burden can bear only a light weight in addition...
...their place in the world has been much changed by scientific developments in recent times. The old idea that the world and all its living tenants were suddenly created is is giving way to the conviction that men of every age are a part of a vast, orderly development of which none know the beginning...