Word: intention
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ordinary man, intent upon his own affairs, and content to let the universe whirl on as it it will so long as it does not bother him, the fact that men devote their whole lives to the stars is of little moment. He feels that it is a great waste of time, perhaps--that is all. Unknown to him is the fact that he sets his watch according to time given him by astronomers, that ships could not navigate the seas; that the commerce of the world depends on the painstaking care and self-sacrificing effort of men whose names...
That these time-honored garments will be worn by undergraduates as innocent of excessive learning as ourselves matters not. What boots it that their thoughts, far from being concentrated on some ethereal conception of intellectuality, are intent on that position at ten dollars a week and the comparative chances of an aesthetic lunch on fourteen cents at "Holts'." Their raiment sets them apart from the plebeian mass of undergraduates for the remainder of their connection with the University...
...whole episode is scarcely worth mentioning except for the influence of such editorials as that of the Times. We thank the ladies for their good intent and trust that they may find another field for the expression of their goodwill; but a "candy-Kitchen" never will prove a success at Harvard...
...deft and tender handling of a difficult unusual situation, read "The New Romance." Mr. Kister has taken elemental facts, arrayed them cleverly, brooded over them with mature intent Sometimes his style is incredibly young,--or is he dramatizing the youth of this gay if serious adventure...
...colleagues, and for reason many of which have no remotest connection with this or with any other institution of learning. I have few better friends anywhere than President Lowell and many of my colleagues here. On but few points of policy and on no point whatsoever of purpose and intent would my views differ from those which I know to be held by the present Administration of Harvard. In short, President Lowell and the present Administration command, and always will command, my most enthusiastic loyalty and support...