Word: attainable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Corporation held yesterday it was voted to allow the membership dues of the Union to be placed on the term bills of the University, beginning next September. For the past two years efforts have been made to attain this end, and in the Union elections during that period the members have voted almost unanimously in favor of such action. Last year, however, despite this vote, the Corporation refused its assent to the plan...
...prepare a student for his profession, but to cultivate his mind and form his character. As Dean West of Princeton said, "College should teach a man to make a life, rather than to make a living." After leaving the university the fierce struggle to make a fortune or attain success absorbs every other motive. It is therefore, at college that a man should realize the high ideals, breadth of mind and varied interests, which lend such an additional charm to life. It is the individualistic principle of the free elective system, which emphasizes out of all proportion the need...
Though a study of the Burmese suggests many ideals, which we of the West have dreamed of, but failed to realize, the point of view which we should strive to attain is neither Occidental nor Oriental, but should combine the best in both, and be higher than either...
...rowing men. It shows conclusively that Harvard oarsmen do not die prematurely, and that they live longer than the average of healthy men accepted by life insurance companies. Furthermore, it shows that, taking "Who's Who in America" as a standard, a far larger percentage of oarsmen attain distinction that of graduates as a whole...
...closing the speaker said: "We remind you that we make no attack upon the principle of labor organization, we grant its possibility for good, but we say that to attain this good, unions must not assume to manage the employers' business; they must forego coercion, and in building themselves up, must not forget that those who differ with them have rights guaranteed them under our free government. But the fact that this is a nation bent on the betterment of the laboring class, that trade-unionism has been agitated and reagitated, and yet has failed to receive the support...