Word: possession
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Furthermore unless the school has the adequate financial support of the community, it can do nothing well; it cannot provide suitable buildings and equipment; it cannot secure and retain teachers who possess scholarship, cultivation, and teaching power commensurate with the work they have to do; it cannot provide the skilled supervision needed to maintain the school buildings and their equipment in a satisfactory condition, and the teaching force at a high level of efficiency...
...attainment. Here the satisfaction lies in the powers within us, for we begin to realize that to be weak is to be miserable. This we must bear in mind to avoid turning side and wasting our vitality on superficial pleasures. This joy of attainment is the possession of the scientist, of the deep thinker, even of the man who has gained wealth; but it is only the stepping stone to the greatest of all joys--that of ministration. However grand the attainment, it must always seem cheap unless made glorious by a noble use. This is why unselfishness should...
...revealer of principles for the guidance of human stewardship, not the propounder of microscopic rules for its daily regulation. He has taught us to face money in the strength of a great principle, and not in the pettiness of a mere rule. And so, wealth, whether you possess it or desire it is yours to desire, to employ, to enjoy in His fear and as His stewards. You may well thank God that other men have lived who have accumulated wealth, but better still, have, both living and dying, with princely hand dispensed...
...necessary implication in the treaty and war-making power. In the Constitution the states delegated to the national government the power to make war and treaties. Did they at the same time delegate the right to hold territory without bringing it under the organic laws? The states do not possess this right today, and clearly they must have given it to the federal government with the treaty and war-making power. The affirmative contention is to make the United States a cripple among nations. If the United States cannot immediately dispose of territory which has come as a result...
Therefore I say, build the Union on the corner of Quincy and Harvard streets. It is the most available site we possess. Centre in the club as many College interests as possible and it will consequently become a rendezvous. It will even be considered convenient, and custom and usage will abolish all thoughts to the contrary. A JUNIOR...