Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Taking as his text James Russell Lowell's words, "My Life Shall be a Challenge not a Truce," he pointed out in a striking and forcible manner the vast good, men and especially college men can do by the example of steadfast and honorable living. He said it was principally for this purpose that the St. Andrews Brotherhood had been formed, and to this it has owed its great success in a large measure...
...work of the crew this spring has been interesting and important as making a new and thorough system in Harvard boating. Whatever the result of the race at New London in June may be, the system has been proved a good one. It has resulted in a vast increase in the intelligent interest in rowing, and in getting many good eight-oared crews on the river. No one can doubt that a thoroughly solid graded system of selection has been established by which all the available material may be well trained, tested in frequent contests, and finally selected...
...buildings will inevitably be closer together than now. The axis through the Quincy street property might bear some relation to Memorial Hall, and to the entrance from the river as well as to the old yard. The axis through the Jarvis Field property might bear some relation towards the vast mass of the neighboring Museum of Natural History and the Divinity School beyond. Further, if the city streets in this neighborhood were placed in the hands of the City Park Commissioners, it would be a comparatively slight matter to form a continuous park road around the College Grounds on existing...
...causes of this vast destruction, Mr. Hornaday attributed to the absence of popular sentiment against it, and thus to the absence of strict laws, and the enforcement of laws already in existence. Other causes are the destructive habit of collecting among boys and ornithologists, and the ravages of the sportsman and plume hunter...
...fortify them we must assume a vast, expensive and unncessary armament; to leave them defenceless we will invite national dishonor and disgrace. As Carl Schurz has said, "our defensive position is today unassailable, and Hawaii would be our Achilles' heel...