Word: careers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...United States." At last year's conference at Cornell Major Putnam, Hamilton Holt, Norman Angell, Hudson Maxim, Andrew D. White, and others presented very divergent views. The camp this year will be addressed by speakers of equal ability, so that all men who are interested in the international career of the United States, who wish to "understand its foreign policy and help to mould it," would enjoy and profit by attending the meetings this year. The cost is small; the experience is stimulating; the time is such that this conference may conveniently be made a preliminary to the July camps...
Meredith closed his career as a collegiate runner by setting up a new world's record of 47 2-5 seconds in the quarter and a new intercollegiate mark of 1 minute 53 seconds in the half-mile. The former intercollegiate record in the quarter of 48 seconds was made by Reidpath of Syracuse in 1912 and was equalled by Meredith last year. The collegiate record for a straight track of 47 3-4 seconds, made by W. Baker '86, has stood since 1886. W. Willcox, Jr., '17 pushed the Pennsylvania captain to exert himself to the limit...
...college graduate, although his general training might be good, was often not immediately serviceable in business. His mind might be active, his vision broad, and his ideals high, but frequently he did not function properly in the initial stages of his business career. He was apt to be impatient with exacting routine and wearisomely repeated detail operations, because he did not realize their significance. He often sought promotion, not merely because the pay was higher but because the work was more interesting, before in his employer's opinion he was fitted for the work of the organization he had entered...
Your leading editorial of Friday last hardly does justice either to your own views, or to those of the member of the regimental committee whose chance remark was there started on a public career. Whatever we think of the special tenets of the Lord's Day League, we do not wish as Harvard men to record ourselves as disdainful of the convictions of others, more particularly of their religious convictions. Is it not the fact that Sunday afternoon is the only available time for these essential parts of the training of the regiment; and that many members of the regiment...
...prologue and seven tableaux D'Indy depicts incidents in the life of Wilhelm, a master bell founder. The masterpiece of his career is a great bell which rings only after his death...