Word: career
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...Applied Aeronautics, Chicago, Ill., with the aim of offering an opportunity to young men for a close study of aviation. It will be conducted particularly for the college man who has taken courses in mathematics, science or any department of engineering, and who is desirous of following a career in this new field of aeronautics...
Every candidate for a scholarship is required to furnish to the Chairman of the Committee of Selections:-- (a) A certificate of age; (b) A full statement of his educational career at school and college; his record in athletics, and such testimonials from his masters at school and professors in college, in reference to the qualifies indicated by Mr. Rhodes, as will assist the judgment of the Committee of Selection...
...Holbrook, in "Taps for the Old Army," proposes to ensure adequate officers for a new army, and at the same time to avoid militarism, by making West Point exclusively a school for reserve officers who desire, to continue their military career after having won commission in the various R. O. T C.'s. Mr. Holbrook is probably too sanguine; no education has yet been discovered which will render weak human nature proof against the possession of power. It is, moreover, impossible to "leave out of consideration the question of the enlisted men." But the discussion of this and kindred topics...
...production of great and brave men. And the reason Harvard is such a good training ground is because it is an exact replica, on a small scale, of the outside world. Here one meets all the outward indifference that one finds when he starts in on a business career. Here one can make a success in any number of ways, in athletics, in studies, socially, economically, even morally. But the whole course of four years is-nothing but one big competition, no matter in what field of distinction one is interested. Even the man who does nothing at all, must...
...been decided how many facts concerning the military career of the man should be included. The Roll of Honor in Widener Library gives only the circumstances and date of the death, while many people believe that the whole military history of the deceased man should be printed. Others have suggested that a photograph of the former occupant of the room would also be appropriate. It is understood that these names will be posted only in the dormitories which belong to the University...