Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposal made by certain undergraduates to have no College exercises on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 1 and 2, and to begin examinations on Thursday, June 3, has been thoroughly considered by the Administrative Board and by the Faculty, which unanimously decided to retain the schedule of final examinations previously announced. Under this ruling College exercises will be held on June 1 and 2, and final examinations will start on June...
Four years partially removed from the world should force a man to realize what a small amount the life of the greatest man plays in the final total. Many men come to Cambridge with an acute perception of their own-transcendent ability. Many men leave the University with an inflated estimate of their own wonder-working skill, but as long as there hangs in the background of their minds a recollection of the thousands who have felt exactly as they feel, as long as they remember that, strangely enough, the world originated in Missouri, as long as they appreciate...
This lecture is only one part of the analysis of the Russian situation as arranged by the Liberal Club. Previous lectures have treated the history of Bolshevism and the other new doctrines that have sprung up in Russia, another the philosophic principles involved, another the economic situation, and a final one, to be given on May 21, will treat the Russian Co-operative movement...
...been the outcome of lost causes. Contemporary observers may have spoken of Thermopylae or Valley Forgo as colossal futility, and branded Leonidas or Washington as stupid and obstinate for not deserting with their forces to the enemy the moment defeat seemed evident. But in both cases obstinacy, had its final result; and in both cases it was the "losing side" that...
...Kirkland of Cornell won the acrobatic event, next on the program. The third event, landing to a mark, was captured by Pyne of Princeton. In the final event, the alert competition in which the aviators were required to dress in flying togs and prepare their planes for flight, Perry of Williams left the ground first, capturing first place...