Word: assets
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Within a year aerial navigation has emerged from the realm of theory and speculation as a practical, though still undeveloped, commercial and war-time asset of marvelous possibilities. As recently as a year ago, when Mr. H. H. Clayton of the Blue Hill Observatory spoke in the Union on "Aerial Navigation," the names of the Wright brothers were the only ones generally known in connection with the subject; today dozens of men with several types of machines are solving in two continents the problems of man's flight. The conquest of the air by balloon and aeroplane will...
...difficulties, provided that degree were brought within the reach of the average man after four years' moderate work. Such an innovation would certainly tend to heighten the intellectual standard of the entire College. In addition, the honor degree would in all probability prove so much more valuable and asset as to induce the majority of those who are now graduated in three years to stay on; Senior year would no longer be more pleasure-seeking; and athletes would in a limited sense become scholars. On the other hand, there would remain for those in financial straits or under an immediate...
...Stephen O'Meara, Police Commissioner of Boston, will address the members of the Catholic Club tonight at 8 o'clock at a smoke talk in the Newman House. His subject will be "Correct Speaking as a Commercial and Professional Asset." The talk is open to all members of the University...
Harvard's national character has been the subject of much profitable discussion, and from a graduate's standpoint her position in the country, and even in the world, is probably her greatest asset in a recent editorial the Bulletin pointed out our many national features--the faithful work of the Alumni Association in promoting the cause of the University throughout the land; "our intimate relations with the German and French universities, our scientific expeditions" to the remotest corners of the earth, and the wide territory from which our students are steadily drawn...
...precept which the young lawyer is most apt to disregard is the importance of knowing his opponent's side of the case with the same thoroughness as his own. Clearness, simplicity of language and conciseness are invaluable qualities in public speaking. The last-named in particular is an indispensable asset in stump speaking. A good rule is to have something to say, say it briefly, and sit down...