Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That was 48 years ago. That eager will has not relaxed. That calm, clear intelligence is not less insistent in its demands. There is the same impatience with things as they are and the resolve to change them in the interest of things as they ought to be. I am not sure that the octogenarian is not still open to the criticism of middle-aged persons that he "wants to do too many things at once." In any organization to which he belongs you will find him pulling at the tugs with all his might, in the tranquil assurance that...
...Among the qualities most needed in a builder," said he, "the ability to think clear of one's class and to estimate a man as a man stands pre-eminent." He showed also the great need of co-operation between labor and capital in the vast reconstruction of the future...
...photographs of last year's regiment, to be used as illustrations in a pamphlet which will be published by the University and sent throughout the country as an encouragement for enlistment in the crops, in case a plan for summer training is decided upon. All men who have any clear, interesting photographs of the R. O. T. C. in 1917 are asked to bring their prints or negatives to the Headquarters Office as soon as possible...
There must still be undergraduates who not only read but think, and express their thoughts in simple, clear and forceful language. It cannot be that all the men who think have gone to the war, or, going, are treasuring their thoughts for slim posthumous volumes of the now familiar type. If things worth printing are still written in Cambridge, the Advocate editors still fail, after all the scolding they have been given of late, to lay eager hands upon the desirable manuscripts. With the Monthly eliminated, the Advocate ought to be able to get all of the best that Harvard...
...subjects bearing close relation to these will fall under group "B." Thus an R. O. T. C. student may learn to speak French in a course on artillery terms and the language in general; he will be drilled in English composition with a view to gaining facility in writing clear and well-constructed letters, reports and various military documents; he will take work in science which will bear on the firing, signaling and other details of artillery; and he will study history which will reveal the situations leading up to the present war. Afternoon drills, equitation and other practical work...