Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Then turning to his subject, he told in plain, straightforward language the kind of life a Harvard man should lead. "You get out of Harvard just what you put put into it; never stop playing until the game is over," he continued. He then wound up his address by saying that being a Harvard man was an obligation; that whatever a graduate or undergraduate of the University does, reflects honor or dishonor on Harvard...
...Chattanooga, Tennessee; Edwin Thomas Martin, ocC., of Marblehead; John Morrison Martin '22, of Cambridge; Charles Jeremiah Mason, Jr., '22, of Scarsdale, New York; Phillip Converse Newton '21, of West Roxbury; William Roos, ocC., of New Bedford; Harlan Smyth Russell, 3 E.S. of Methuen; John DeCasgrain Scott '22, of Jamaica Plain; Malcolm Clark Sherman '20, of Cambridge; Carl Senff Stillman Jr., '22, of Wellesley; Elijah Hubbard Stillman '22, of Wellesley; Paul Kendriken Thomas '22, of Peoria, Illinois; and Harold Kleinert Guinzburg '21, of New York City (manager...
Professor Morriman's discussion of the tutorial system on Thursday night made the goal seem both more desirable and more unobtainable. It was plain that the speaker, like every American who has been at Oxford and made a success there, felt keenly that no intellectual experience of his student life either at Harvard or in Europe has been as fine as his contact with his tutors at Baliol. The most justifiable kind of envy is the envy of a man caught in the machinery of one sort of educational mill for the chaps who are in another mill which...
President Lowell then drew attention to the singular pertinence of this moral to the life of a forcible man in the "ordinary currents of our time." During the war there was the comfort of having a plain duty to perform, with no moral questions to decide. The great object, never lost from sight, was winning the victory; a man's duty his courses prescribed, was to obey orders, and this was true whether he served in the armed forces or as a civilian. But with the ceasing of hostilities this singleness of aim has changed, as man again becomes...
...wise course for the Democrats is plain. They must in the first place, nominate a man of much greater weight and strength of character than the Republican candidate. Nine-tenths of popular confidence lies in personality; and the Democratic convention must make it its first care to select a man whose record and utterances are sufficient guarantee that he intends to exercise the powers of the Presidency, unaugmented but undiminished. He ought also to be one in whose hands the great productive interests of the country would feel safe. The temptation at San Francisco will be to try to take...