Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Class Day is distinctly Senior's Day. It's success depends largely upon our ability to keep the Yard solely in the possession of Seniors and their friends. To accomplish this every precaution has been taken. Tickets have been made from special sketches, copyrighted and numbered, and a record will be made of the holder of every ticket that leaves the Committee's office...
Other systems of college education may strive in various ways to accomplish these ends and may be partly successful, but in the free elective system alone do we find in all its purity, and at its very best, the atmosphere of responsible freedom which I have tried to prove to you supremely essential to the growth of aggressive scholarship, broad views and vigorous manhood...
...each Athletic Committee should desire to have as big a surplus as possible, to make as many permanent improvements as possible, and to pay off the debt upon the stadium s soon as possible. But should they seriously inconvenience the students to satisfy this desire, when they can accomplish practically as much with a little less surplus without taxing the students severely? Why should the present classes strain to pay for these improvements and the Stadium, when the advantages of them should last generations? Is it not fairer to the present classes for the debts to be paid on more...
...this belief we need only exert our active will, for the real stumbling block is not ignorance, but the torpor of national conscience. Once we realize that submission to the "spoils" system is cowardly and a source of peril to the common wealth its overthrow will be easy to accomplish...
Israel, said Dr. Faunce, was long an object of ridicule to the surrounding peoples as a nation whose one possession was a faith in God and a true religion. A nation or a man that has not learned to be laughed at with composure can never accomplish anything. The scoffer shuts himself up in the dungeon of his own mind. Knowledge and love and truth can come only to him that keeps his heart and mind open to receive them. It is pitiful to see a man who deliberately scorns the beauties of art or nature. Infinitely more pitiful...