Word: may
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...governing authorities must be responsible for the uneven development of the University grounds. Why the power plant was allowed to drop down in the midst of the general scheme, and why Gore Hall was countenanced, are questions that we cannot answer, but are object lessons from which we may well benefit in the future...
...James MacKaye '95, who has been lecturing during the last two weeks on "Political Engineering," will be in Emerson F this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock to answer any questions that may be asked relating to his lectures. Mr. MacKaye has not answered questions at the end of each separate lecture but asked that any of his audience who wished to question him would wait until after the last lecture. At the meeting this afternoon he will be prepared to explain any difficulties that may have arisen in the minds of any of his hearers during the course...
That the value of a class to its own members and to the University is impaired in just the proportion that the class lacks unity may be taken for granted. There have been examples, fortunately few in number, of classes disorganized for years by the entrance of politics into the affairs of undergraduate days. Their reunions have been embittered, their harmony has been lost, and the services which they might have rendered to Harvard have failed for want of united action...
...hold the second election now, when this party controversy is at its height, would be manifestly unwise. Whether a postponement will make matters any better is not certain; the experiment is at least worth trying. A calmer spirit on both sides may do much toward patching up in the second election the differences which are now so threatening...
...nature man is not fitted for this work for four reasons; he is more sensitive to pain than to happiness, he is highly susceptible to disease, his requirements for maintenance of life are too great to obtain the highest degree of efficiency and he produces in order that he may produce more, rather than that he may produce more, rather than that he may enjoy what he has already produced. Man's egotism is opposed by his will and turned into altruism, and his intelligence, which distinguishes him from other members of the animal kingdom and raises...