Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...millennium has not been reached, we do not believe that things have changed. The money line of distinction is no longer of great importance. Good fellowship is placed higher than a substantial check-book and an expensive motor car. Wealth still makes the path to popularity easier in certain circles, yet most of us at Harvard as well as most of us in America try to estimate men by their character rather than by their pocketbooks. We believe that "a man's a man for a' that...
When President Lowell receives congratulations from his friends this morning on his sixtieth birthday, he can feel certain, as most men cannot, that all the compliments paid him are deserved. As head of the University he has carried on the work begun by President Eliot, not merely as a capable administrator, but as a man of vision and foresight. Under his leadership Harvard has maintained her position among the first universities of the world, and has blazed the path to higher fields of scholarship. The war has dimmed the light of science and letters in Europe, but President Lowell...
...Cosmopolitan Club will hold a meeting in the club rooms in Holyoke House, Friday evening at 8 o'clock. This meeting is one of the weekly gatherings which the club holds to promote interest in current events and to enable the members to hear the opinions of certain men who are authorities on the subjects they discuss...
...past six months, he had been working on the development of a new process for chlorination, one of the most widely used and important reactions in organic chemistry. This process appears to have certain fundamental advantages over any hitherto known. In spite of his quietness, and the anger with which he would have rejected such a suggestion, he had the power of seeing visions. He realized as all too few people in America do realize that a nation's welfare both in war and peace depends very closely on the science and industry of chemistry, and will in the future...
...editorial board this year to make accuracy rather than speed its aim, but conditions at the printer's office have caused the further delay of a few days. The entire book has been on the press for a week so that the time of publication is now certain...