Word: striving
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Clews opened his address by showing that we are all individualists, not socialists, since we strive for education to benefit ourselves, and train ourselves to win. In the individual effort of men of talent, success and fame are secured. Harvard stands pre-eminently in the business world for individualism. Therefore it is watched closely by the prominent men of the country...
Individual competition has done more than anything else to make the nation what it is. Socialism is self-contradictory and opposed to deep-rooted and ineradicable human instincts. If everything is accessible to all, why should man strive for something that will not be remunerative to him? Each is proud of his own skill, knowledge, and ability. Socialism in the United States would drive those of superior qualities out of the country, to where such qualities would have a free chance...
Then smash 'em again, again! aud strive with might and main...
...plot of the play turns upon the desire of Bergamin to marry his son Percinet to Sylvette, the daughter of his neighbor Pasquinot. In order to accomplish this the fathers separate their children that they may love each other the more, and strive to be re-united. As a part of the ruse, Bergamin abducts Sylvette, Percinet rescues her, discovers the fraud, and goes into exile. Straforel then kidnaps Sylvette in earnest, in order to drive the romantic nonsense from her head. Percinet returns from exile, finds Sylvette, and the two lovers are reconciled...
...College life will be saner when we distribute our labors carefully and thus strive to strike a more perfect balance between the two ultras, automatic officers and automatic loafers...