Word: careers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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John Kendrick Bangs entertained several hundred members of the Union in the Living Room last night, with anecdotes of his career as a lecturer and an account of some of the "Celubrities I Have Met," including Richard Harding Davis, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Andrew Carnegie, Judge Robert Grant '73, and Mark Twain...
John Kendrick Bangs will speak in the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Bangs is well known for his humorous writings and at different times in his journalistic career has served on the staffs of many well known magazines, including Harper's Magazine, Harper's Weekly, Life, Puck, and the Metropolitan Magazine. Tomorrow evenings' lecture will be the fourth in the series of lectures and entertainments given by the Union to its members this season...
...great benefit in an early determination upon his duties in his career, comes to the college student, it seems to me, not so much in the handicap it gives him in the race for the goal of success as in the advantage it brings by setting in the firmament of his hopes and aspirations a star to which he may hitch his wagon. The early choice of a profession furnishes a definite aim, a direct road, a basis for concentration...
...Signally Noble Career...
...confess my inability, in the space of time allowed, to do justice to Mr. Dana's lofty character and to his signally noble career, which was guided from first to last by high principle, an indomitable courage, a lofty independence of spirit, and a mind always conscious to itself of right. He met with many cruel disappointments, his aspiring dreams were not realized, but take him, all for all, he was a man of whom his native state and country may well be proud, and give him a high place among its immortals...