Word: things
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1910
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...easiest thing in the world to sketch out in the closet a system of government; and it is one of the most difficult things in the world to make a government really function. In just the same way it is proverbially easy to preach morality, and still easier to applaud it when preached; but it is difficult to do the only thing that counts, which is to apply the morality in practice. For that reason when I speak of applied morality,--using morality in the largest sense, that is, for the efficient application of the principles, the carrying...
...Here, again, I mention these men merely to illustrate by example just what I mean in what I have to say to you tonight. It is the easiest thing in the world for any man, sitting in his study, to write virtuous articles in which he declaims against the greed of people who are engaged in destroying our forests or wasting our water supply. But it is an exceedingly difficult thing practically to work out a scheme of conservation. And this was just exactly what Messrs. Garfield and Pinchot did. Their work was done not only with zeal and disinterestedness...
...meetings; they have sometimes resulted in furthering the cause of peace. But those engaged in them have never begun to do such practical work for peace as have the men who in actual practice succeeded in reducing certain of these theories to action. For instance, it was a fine thing to establish The Hague court; but, having been established, the court was never used, for it was found to be infinitely easier to pass lofty resolutions as to its existence than actually to get any power, any nation, under any circumstances, to try to take advantage of it. The court...
...writer of the communication descends almost to personalities, we wish to refer him to an editorial in the CRIMSON of February 28, 1878, which denoted our policy then, as now, and which said that editorials represent the opinion of the entire Board and that "there is no such thing as the author of an editorial in the CRIMSON." We do not doubt the sincerity of the committee in question, and our reason for stating that the list of nominees which it submitted was not the most representative possible was, first, because we believed this to be the case, and, second...
...coaching force at Harvard has varied greatly in size in different seasons, and the coaching policy has been subject to repeated and radical changes. The accessibility of Cambridge has brought an embarrassment of material, and in the middle nineties it was no unusual thing to find from twenty to thirty coaches on the field...