Word: sweepingly
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...evening should be a pleasant entertainment and furthermore make us better acquainted with the true conditions in China which we are asked to help alleviate. It is probably impossible for us to appreciate fully the feelings of our Chinese students at this time when a serious famine threatens to sweep their country. We are told that if Harvard men realized the gravity of the situation they would gladly give aid, and it is for this reason that we hope as many students as possible will attend the entertainment tonight...
...really wage effective war against the forces of baseness and evil. From the political standpoint, education is a harm and not a benefit to the men whom it serves as an excuse for refusing to mingle with their fellows and for standing aloof from the broad sweep of our national life in a curiously impotent spirit of fancied superiority. The political wrong-headedness of such men is quite as great as that of wholly uneducated men, and no people could be less trust-worthy as critics and advisers. The educated man who seeks to console himself for his own lack...
...Sweep down the field again...
...whole, however, the form of the first crew is exceedingly ragged, although the order has remained the same since Monday. This is due to the lack of a suitable stroke who combines a long enough reach to afford the men behind him an opportunity for a strong sweep. Cable, Ellis, Faulkner and Williams have been tried there successively, but none, of them has proved satisfactory...
...rooms for the poor. Is this not pure philanthropy on the part of the State, or better is it not the sign of awakened conscience in regard to the evil conditions of government? The necessity of good government is organized conscience, which would act continuously and forcibly, and would sweep away the corruption...