Word: moment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...many. Finally, experience has proved that it is a wiser plan to place the athletic interests of the University in the hands of a conservative body of men, some of whom are graduates, than to give the control to undergraduates who are interested rather in the contests of the moment than in the general welfare of athletics at Harvard...
Inviting you to all that is beautiful and noble, I ask you to follow with me the history and literary and literary development of my country. The first striking figure in Russia's history is Peter the Great. He marks the moment in the nation's life when her own his orical development was augmented by the outside influence of other nations. He shatters the wall separating Russia for 700 years from the rest of the world. But Peter's name marks one transition moment. The personality of the Empress Catherine II seems to absorb the entire eighteenth century...
...imagination. He brings together twin brothers, who see in each other no resemblance. They address each other as "child" and "old man" respectively. The Abbe of Cisley hates them with the most undying hatred because they were the illegitimate sons of his wife and his brother; yet the moment they succumb to his diabolical cruelty he finds he loves them as if they were his own children...
...most Harvard men. The article on this subject in Saturday's CRIMSON showed clearly to what this growth was due, namely, the vigorous, progressive administration, which has not been baffled by the serious limitations of space, apparatus and general funds, but has pushed steadily on, making at every moment the largest possible use of what material was available, and ready always with plans for future development which awaited only the money necessary for carrying them...
...CRIMSON is occasionally in receipt of complaints concerning matters of greater or less moment to the University, the subjects of which could either be remedied or satisfactorily explained upon a single appeal to the person or persons who are or seem to be responsible for the grievances claimed. Whenever it seems necessary to make a remonstrance against some crying abuse or an appeal to public opinion on any subject, the columns of a daily paper are perhaps the natural medium. But it is absurd to bring before the public petty complaints that can be settled by simpler and more natural...