Word: working
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...student to whom an extension is granted is thereby released from his responsibility to his instructors, nor is he thereby excused from hour examinations or written tests. Absence from Cambridge is no excuse for delay in handing in written work...
...whole exhibition offers an unusually comprehensive view of the work of this brilliant and erratic artist-writer on the side not generally so well known. Ruskin was primarily a writer, and he almost never attempted to make a real picture from the artist's point of view. His drawings in this collection, therefore, are in many cases mere studies, some very slight, mere notes with a pencil, some with bits of wash or color in places, others highly finished in wash or color though hardly any really complete...
...close relation to the question at hand. His speech was well-presented, but he was surpassed in this by Ehrmann, who earned his position not so much on the subject-matter as on the way in which it was presented. Although the other speakers showed care in preparation, the work of Collier and Ehrmann easily excelled. All phases of the question were discussed and there was a general division on the most advantageous solution. All the speeches, summaries of which are given below, were exceedingly interesting...
...first speaker was E. J. Arnstine '13. The question is purely one of the practicality of the tax. If adopted, would the income tax work equitably? Both methods of imposing this tax are disastrous. The income declared would not be one-quarter of the usual amount. It would corrupt and demobilize the people as was done in England. The second method of obtaining the tax by assessors is obviously difficult. Would the freedom-loving Frenchmen submit to having their pockets searched? This was the cause of the French Revolution...
...highest ideal to which man can attain is the production of happiness. But by nature man is not fitted for this work for four reasons; he is more sensitive to pain than to happiness, he is highly susceptible to disease, his requirements for maintenance of life are too great to obtain the highest degree of efficiency and he produces in order that he may produce more, rather than that he may produce more, rather than that he may enjoy what he has already produced. Man's egotism is opposed by his will and turned into altruism, and his intelligence, which...