Word: soberness
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...describes the laudable and successful steps lately taken by the University to give graduate students just the kind of lodgings that they want. For Mr. Rogers' description of the new "Department of Social Ethics" perhaps a more illuminating illustration could have been found: for instance a view of the sober, student philanthropist visiting a saloon, or sleeping with a tramp--which he is described as doing--would bring the work home to us as the prospect of the tidy social ethics library does not. Mr. Curtis in "Analysis" tries to wheedle the ambitious into English 18. The remaining two articles...
...nowadays simply stirs up decent lads to do things that they are adapt to be ashamed of at the time and pretty sure to be ashamed of later." The mere fact that as this same writer also states "its membership includes among the graduates a great many solid, sober and responsible citizens," makes the charged criminality of its actions more absurd and allows us to see the whole affair through the eyes of those who understand Harvard, and how the traditions of an organization which had a place in times gone by still influence men of the present...
...this evening to discuss a question of the hour. Not for years has the country been so stirred over a matter of pure legislation as over the status which Congress shall decide upon for Porto Rico. This is a live, practical question, one that invites the sober consideration of every American. The decision of the American people on this question will decide whether we are to continue along that line of development which we have successfully followed since the beginning of our national existence...
...deny that exceptional cases may arise, but we ask our opponents to answer this question: Where in the Cabinet system is there opportunity equal to that given by the Congressional system for the sober second thought of the people to assert itself...
...history of the University's development and the nature of its present organization and to appreciate the services of those who have contributed largely to its present prosperity. It is through the possession of a large body of graduates, whose loyal attachment as graduates is strengthened by a sober understanding of the actual conditions and needs of the University, that Harvard's continued development in the future is assured...