Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...often been remarked as strange that the oldest College in America should have so few customs surviving from tradition and it is true that when we look about us we can recognize few habits that have been imposed upon us by antiquity. One custom, one very antiquated custom, we still have, however, and it has very little to recommend its continuance save its antiquity. The custom referred to is the ringing of the College bell every morning at 7 o'clock...
...Those who actually do the work of conservation have, therefore, a peculiar claim upon us. While I was President, there were no two men to whom I felt I owed more, from the standpoint of the public service, than Messrs. Garfield and Pinchot, for the work they did in connection with conservation...
...committee deems essential to render the body effective. If the Faculty refuses to grant these powers or equivalent ones, then the whole matter must be dropped. In adopting such a plan, however, the committee is taking no unnecessary chances. For if the Faculty is not willing to give us an effective body, then, certainly, nothing can be gained from repeating the experiment of another useless Council. In case the Faculty sees fit to confer the necessary authority on the new body, the constitution should be submitted to the undergraduates for ratification. When ratified, the members of the Council will...
...that the mass know only the mass. It would seem wise, therefore, in order to enlist the services of Messrs. X and Y, to revive the old provision, whereby some of the members of the Council are elected by the Council itself. If everybody is to be represented, let us have among the representatives a few nobodies-the singular of which everybody is the plural. A. S. OLMSTRO...
...bondholders who control the debt in the same way. The interest on the war debt of Europe amounts to one and a fifth billion dollars and this falls on the taxpayers. We see the effects of this upon the poverty stricken country people of France. But if war makes us strong and a world power, we must have...