Word: whether
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...issue of the Boston police strike is more than a local one. Law and order, represented by officials of the state and city, have decided that the police were at fault in leaving their posts. Whether Mr. Curtis failed in having the vacant posts guarded by reserves or guardsmen is not the issue. The posts should never have been left vacant...
...first place", he replied, "they open new fields of scientific experimentation. The commercial value of the method depends upon whether sugar and similar foods can be produced in large quantities by the laboratory method. It would be very unscientific to hazard a prophecy as to the future developments in this line. It is merely a question of time till discoveries made often accidentally, find their way to factory and are used in large scale production. Almost every scientific discovery is made use of sooner of later...
...themselves for life in a large world by studying what men have thought and done and learned; then it is the most broadening, enlarging and stimulating place to be found. Every young man needs to acquire a habit of concentration, and a devotion to purpose, without inquiring too much whether he enjoys the process or whether he himself always perceives at the moment its direct relation to what is to come afterward. He must learn to put forth effort, because he has faith in the end to be attained, not because the means to that end suit his taste...
Neither of his letters makes any definite statement, save that he is not surprised--an assertion with which I have no quarrel; he only implies by turns (a) that a lynching mob should not be punished by law, (b) that, apart from the question of whether they should be punished or not, they are normal citizens, acting from good motives. Both these doctrines seemed to me too mischievous to pass unchallenged; and I attacked them with arguments which he gives no sign of having read, and certainly has not answered. But when I read in his second letter...
...chosen captain of the University cross-country team at a meeting of the first squad in the Locker Building yesterday afternoon. Owing to the disorganized condition of University athletics in the past two years and the consequent lack of "H" men, all members of the firs squad, whether "H" men or not, were allowed to vote...