Word: wording
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Every man in the University is requested to give as liberally as possible. Men have been appointed to collect in the various dormitories and clothing should be given to them alone. Those men who live outside of the dormitories may either leave things at Phillips Brooks House, or leave word there where they may be called for. For the sake of getting the clothes to the front as soon as possible, wagons will be sent around after 7 o'clock this evening for the collections...
...machine said he could not win; in the same way many apparently one-sided issues, when left to the people, are decided in a wholly unexpected manner. Sincere and helpful criticism of men and institutions with which the young politician comes in contact, an inflexible maintenance of his word, come what may, and an attitude towards the people while not too cordial and familiar, yet open-minded and careful of their interests, are some of the most fundamental elements of success. It does not make so much difference to what party you belong or what candidate you support as long...
Applications for rooms in College buildings must be in today. A word of advice may save the applicants from considerable inconvenience. There are a good many technical requirements to be fulfilled before the applications can be considered, chief of which is the demand that a bond be properly filed with the Bursar. Many men have been disappointed in the past through neglect of the minor details. Let their misfortune be a warning to others...
...regret that I noticed certain signs of irreverent laughter when I alluded to the word 'smartness.' I have no message to deliver, but if I had a message to deliver to a university which I love, to the young men who have the future of their country to mold, I would say with all the force at my command: Do not be smart. If I were not a doctor of this university with a deep interest in its discipline, and if I did not hold the strongest views on that reprehensible form of amusement known as 'rushing,' I would...
...They say youth is the season of hope, ambition, and uplift--that the last word youth needs is an exhortation to be cheerful. Some of you here know, and I remember; that youth can be a season of great depression, despondencies, doubts, and waverings, the worse because they seem to be peculiar to ourselves and incommunicable to our fellows. There is a certain darkness into which the soul of the young man some time descends--a horror of desolation, abandonment, and realized worthlessness, which is one of the most real of the hells in which we are compelled to walk...