Word: mind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wholesale regard for law and order coupled with an exaggerated emotional sense of justice do not always work smoothly in double harness. Doubtless, to the legal mind, an outbreak of mob violence is the uspeakable; correction of evils should be undertaken by the ballot--no matter whether the base offender against the primal law of harmony in the state die of old age in the penitentiary while awaiting trial for his deeds. Doubtless, Mr. Fairbanks, you are right...
Comparatively few men and women would cast aside the whole work of the peace conference. There are a few radicals who are shrieking protests against the "entire wicked business," recalling to mind those opposers of the Constitution who declared that document a "covenant with death." But these may be discounted. The loudness of their talk can only be equalled by the fewness of their numbers. How could a group of self-respecting nations, having fought a war against the impossible conditions then existing in the world have the moral weakness to allow themselves to slip back into the same...
Nowadays when one encounters people who are in a reposeful state of mind about anything, they excite one's interest, even though they may not be either congenitally or congenially interesting. Among the few groups that are resting easy in a serene consciousness of good work well done, with not much more to do, is the fraternity or the sorority, of those who feel that they have at last helped to make the colleges safe for the young man. That a college is a wild and wicked place, and that of all colleges Harvard has been for years the wildest...
...Engineering School starts its first full academic year with a body of 88 students. It should be borne in mind that many of the men now registered in Harvard College will transfer to the Engineering School, according to the arrangement now in force between...
Getting acquainted is the first permanent need which occurs to the average Freshman's mind. After the first rush of paying term-bills and choosing courses, he is sure to feel out of place in his new surroundings. He wants to make friends. The difficulty lies in knowing...