Word: powers
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...intercollegiate debating committee has complete charge of the arrangements for the Yale and Princeton debates, and it has the power to appoint sub-committees from the class clubs to undertake part of the work. Besides the president of the club, S. B. Rosenthal 3L, the following compose the committee this year: H. A. Yeomans 1G., chairman; H. P. Chandler '01, secretary; H. B. Kirtland '01, H. F. Wolff 2L, and R. C. Bruce '02. This committee will choose the question for the Yale debate which comes in December, and will also decide which side of the question Harvard will argue...
...Dana advocated a system of appointment by open competitive examination, claiming that in this way the power of the political boss can be broken...
...growing habit of spending long years in preparation for a life work is a grave error. As soon as a man or a woman can do strenuous work in the world, that will be found the best training. A course of study should only be long enough to win power; the sooner you begin to use it the better. Do not get in four years what you can get in three. Our aim in life is not to work for our own improvement; we must work on that we may in this way be of service to others...
...said of its beauty, of the mystery surrounding its growth? The cross itself is but a couple of beams; but does this tell of it as a refuge for the sinner, as a triumphant emblem of faith? Surely this faith is the real thing, worth having, not the power to analyze that of others. Science has its place, but it has also its limitations. For one thing, the spiritual life cannot be weighed or measured by science; the pure in heart alone...
...repeat, then, emotion and feeling will outlast argument. The parts of the Bible which have always had the most influence are those which contain passages of great beauty and mystery; and in the teachings of Christ we see the same truth. His power came largely from the fact that He spoke to those about Him in parables; and all the parables of Jesus were full of poetic inspiration...