Word: privee
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...Prive and personal opinion cannot be forced to coincide with the opinions of others. Harvard men as individuals may be antipathetic toward the monument now determined. In a matter of this sort, however, external unison is a requisite for the efficacy of the project. Therefore, since there is to be a memorial and since that memorial is to be placed in the Yard all opposing exceptions dwindle. Nothing is so destructive as quibbling over a subject whose nature is as dignified as inartificial--and as intangible--as is this. There is something greater and finer than quarrels as to place...
...tradition of Toombs, Stephens, Ben Hill and Gordon, since his nickname is 'Pshaw.' That he should speak of law enforcement above a whisper seems to show a lack of any sense of humor, since the enforcement of the 14th and 15th Amendment would certainly de prive him of a seat in the House of Representatives and give him an opportunity for usefulness in spraying the boll weevil on a Georgia cotton plantation...