Word: bearings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work by the study of kindred subjects in college. In any case no greater mistake can be made than to attempt to anticipate the actual work of a graduate school, at the expense of general knowledge. What subject is chosen for emphasis is really not essential. The student should bear in mind, however, that some courses and some instructors, valuable to the specialist, are not suited for giving a general view. He must think of the probable advantage of his choice in after years, when simple knowledge fails, but when ability to follow the interests of his fellows...
...Clarence B. Moore '73 has presented the Peabody Museum with three clay vessels, valuable relics of the Indian mound-builders of Alabama. Mr. Moore personally conducted excavations at Bear Point, Baldwin county, Alabama, and found these vessels of extreme value in showing the skilful workmanship of the Indians. There is a black clay dish fourteen inches in diameter, a plate of the same material, ten inches in diameter and a small vase moulded from clay. All are broken into fragments which will be put together at the Museum...
...Outing"--"Black Bear Shooting in Kashmir," by E. H. Litchfield "99; "Tent Life in the Himalayas," by W. H. Workman '73m; "Angling," by W. C. Harris '99; "The Thoroughbred," by W. H. Rowe...
...Adams '02, D. Dubois '03, G. E. Behr, Jr., '01, A. M. Sumner '04, S. L. Barbour '02, G. Draper '03, M. F. Hewitt '01, E. L. Burnham '04, G. C. Hirst '02, J. P. Williams '03, R. C. Ware '04, J. Harwood '02, O. L. Bear '03, M. E. Gruch '03, A. H. Shaefer '02, S. Whittaker '03, V. K. Keesey '03, W. B. Egan...
...impression that a somewhat similar investigation was made in certain hearings held before the Harbor and Land Commission in 1894, but since the present project is so radically different from the one then considered, and since so many and important changes have taken place in the conditions which bear on the practicability of this scheme, it seems reasonable after the lapse of over six years to ask for this new commission...