Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Supreme Court's decision that the terms of the Gordon McKay will and the intent of the donor are not satisfied by the terms of the existing agreement between Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology creates, for the future, a very serious problem. Indeed, the responsibility of discovering a way in which the money can be wisely used becomes a question requiring the most arduous thought of all those in direction of Harvard's policy...
...Supreme Court, however, has had to take into account other interests than these. It has been obliged to look to the actual will and intent of the benefactor whose gift first brought into existence the other, the educational question. Upon such inspection, and in the interest of the integrity of all testaments, it has declared that the present educational agreement is not a satisfaction of the McKay will. Once more the obligation to decide on a wise educational use of the fund is thrown back upon Harvard. Boston Transcript...
...reside as much in patience, in industry and in moral purpose as in physical strength and in military efficiency. Darwin was certainly not a preacher of militarism, either directly or inferentially. We cannot put the blame for this war either upon Darwin or Nietzsche. When a man is intent upon evil purposes he can quote Scripture to his purpose. The men of cold science may indeed have "inspired" the German aggressors, but it must be noted that the Prussian mind was capable of perverting every utterance and every principle to its purpose. Boston Transcript...
...study of chemistry will benefit by the Stanley Bagg Pennock scholarship. Any senior specializing in this science with intent to make it his life work is eligible. He must show conscientious work and good grades. Unlike many awards, it is for no particular branch of the subject. This is encouragement for the steady, hard-working undergraduate, rather than for the man who is brilliant on tests, but unreliable in daily work. The reward is for efforts in college courses only, not for labor on a special outside subject...
...cannot now be said what form the declaration of war may take if one is passed by Congress. It seems to be the intent, in spite of differences in the Senate and House resolutions, to issue a declaration implying that the German Government has already committed acts of war against the United States and on that ground to authorize the President to employ the forces of the United States to carry on war against the Imperial German Government...