Word: career
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...college, as his mother depended upon him for support. As the successor of Charles Lowell in the control of the railroad at Burlington, he received his first experience in railroading. It was upon his advice that the first line across the state of Iowa was built. Throughout his career he always commanded respect for himself and his road by consideration and kindness for all those with whom he came in contact. In the capacity of officer of a bank in Lincoln, Nebraska, he spent $1,100,000 of his private wealth to prevent its failure, solely because he felt...
...establishment of a series of lectures on the professions by the Union is due to the belief that while a very large proportion of the undergraduates are trying during their college course to make a wise choice of a career, that choice is often made with a superficial knowledge of the nature, inducements and difficulties of the different professions. It is also based on the belief that the occupations known as professions are all equally worthy, and that even those men who think they have a clear predilection for a particular profession make a great mistake if they...
...Dean H. A. Christian, A.M. '03, on "Medicine as a Career...
Dean Hurlbut in a short address explained the purpose of the meeting, and introduced President Hadley as one who while an undergraduate had won the highest honors his university could award and whose career as a writer and administrator has shown the wisdom of the choice. Most important of all, he is president of that university with which Harvard is most closely allied...
President Hadley began his speech by defining a prize as an opportunity, its value lying in the use made of it afterwards. There is a greater responsibility than that of the prize winner for his own career; it is the responsibility of all prize winners for the place that learning is to command in the judgment of their fellow-countrymen...