Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Woods will be in Brooks House Tuesday and Friday mornings from 10.30 to 11.30 to confer with men who wish to engage in some form of charitable work. Those who from lack of experience are unwilling to commit themselves to regular appointments, can get information regarding the character of the philanthropic work that is being done in Boston. Mr. Woods will be glad to suggest tours of investigation to the most interesting boys' clubs, workingmen's institutes, college settlements, public baths, play-grounds, gymnasiums...
...intimate knowledge of the doings of one of the teams, to say nothing of the other. There is noticeable, on the other hand, among those whose technical knowledge of football and careful observation of both teams, make them really competent critics, a marked degree of modesty, a reluctance to commit themselves as to the outcome. Indeed as the day draws nearer it becomes more and more evident that according to those who are best informed the teams are very evenly matched...
...loved Harvard and I worked hard there. On the night of Saturday, May 29, after the Harvard-Princeton baseball game, I did, upon the impulse of the moment (I intended only to paint the score on the sidewalk when I bought the paint) commit what has properly been called an act of vandalism, of which I am heartily ashamed, and which has cost me my dearest ambition. I painted the score upon the pedestal of the statue of John Harvard, but I never intended it for "desecration," although I now feel that the student sentiment was just...
...been expected, every undergraduate who has been heard to express an opinion on the subject has condemned the action in the strongest terms as that of persons who have no regard whatever for the good name of the University, and simply took the baseball game as an excuse to commit this outrage. Certainly such uncalled for proceedings show any but the real spirit in which Harvard athletic celebrations are held...
...object first and then to seek the means to gain it, is illogical. To get good legislation, we first need to get good public men. To do that civil service is needed. In, say, a question of tariff legislation, keen strife between groups of producers is inevitable. If we commit such a task to men who peddle votes for places or a President who peddles places for votes, poor results are a foregone conclusion. So it is in all forms of legislation. The first thing needed is to reform the character of the men. To talk about attending first...