Word: destroys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have taken part in all the changes of the past thirty years, the present proposal seems to threaten to destroy by one blow all that has been gained during that period by the persistent labor of a whole generation of scholars. The present senior year may fairly be said to represent the net gain in scholarship which Harvard College has made since 1860; and if this year is lost we must begin again at the foot of the long and toilsome hill which we have slowly climbed...
...dead upon the seashore." He said that we all had an Egyptian-some passion of the mind or body and that we should all endeavor to get rid of it and leave it dead behind us. Many would say that they had not the power nor the strength to destroy the ruling vice. The speaker then said that nothing was apparently more significant and really more insignificant than men's knowledge of themselves. If men would only try, they could do many things. He finally concluded with an apeal to 'get something done'to rise up and leave the Egyptian...
...question of duty. You undergraduates hold in trust the buildings and material which generations of benefactors have bequeathed for your use; but you are responsible to the classes which will come after you for the preservation of this trust. It is not yours to paint or to destroy; it is yours only for a time. And plainly enough it is your duty to prevent any one from injuring it. Evidently you cannot fulfill your obligations so long as you say to the depredators: "We are very, very indignant; but we are all brothers, and perhaps you were intoxicated...
...Chicago has the energy, intelligence, and money to fulfill the first condition. The present political squabbles will destroy the effectiveness of New York's efforts-Charles Dudley Warner; Studies in the Great West, in Harper's; (b) Chicago offers several suitable sites: New York has none; (c) the central position of Chicago will enable the greatest numbers to visit the fair; (d) Chicago excels New York in terminal facilities, and local transportation; (e) Chicago has a superior climate, water supply, and hotel accommodations...