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Debating on the question, "Resolved, That modern science has made the world a happier place," six representatives of the Harvard Freshman Debating Council will participate in the annual Harvard, Yale, Princeton Freshman debate tonight. In accordance with the mechanism of this traditional debate a Harvard team defending the negative will be hosts to a Princeton trio, while an affirmative team will travel to Yale...
...thoughtful person can desire the permanent existence of the status quo. Things that served their purpose well a few years ago are not necessarily best fitted to meet the needs of the future. Some things must be scrapped. The common man must be given an opportunity to lead a happier life. Everyone who desires a job and is competent, must, from sheer justice, be given an opportunity to hold one; the country is duty bound to accomplish this even at the expense of forcing the permanent discontinuation of the huge bonuses paid to industrialists. Any man who can take...
...done when other people are not looking. Perhaps that is why he was convicted of impersonating another candidate in a Civil Service examination some years ago and put behind the bars to think it over. His administration as Mayor of Boston was a huge success; his friends were never happier. Even the taxpayer knew where the municipal funds were being spent...
Forty-one days they huddled on the thwarts or lay half-conscious in the bilge. At last they reached the Great Barrier Reef and, with no chart but Bligh's memory of a voyage with Captain Cook, found a passage through. In a happier dawn than the one that saw their hopeless start they sailed into the harbor of Coupang, with Bligh still at the tiller and none of them quite dead...
Weak with joy, Coach Little managed to sputter into a radio microphone: "If there's a happier man in this world, he must be in Heaven...