Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...being professionalized, particularly those of a business character. Our schools of commerce and finance are preparing men for railroading, insurance and banking, and other lines of mercantile and business activities. Moreover, commercial and manufacturing concerns are reaching out in every direction for able college students of trained judgment and clear vision who, on learning the technique of the particular occupations, may be counted upon for leadership and direction. There is also the official public service, embracing a very large number of reasonably attractive positions, particularly in the consular, foreign trade, engineering, and technical branches. More serious attention is now being...
Professor Emeritus J. C. Warren contributes "David Williams Cheever," a retrospect and an appreciation. Professor Cheever held the chair of surgery and later served as an Overseer. He was a teacher, a writer, and Professor Warren gives a clear idea of him as a sage and kindly example of the confidential family physician of the old school...
...power of exact definition, of clear statement, and of critical analysis...
...required is past, and a man finds that to his great surprise he can remember to use a plural verb with a plural subject the actual effort will be forgotten. One of the greatest assets for a young man entering business is the ability to write letters in a clear, simple style without unnecessary words and phrases. Therefore this course should be regarded as a temporary hospital for men disabled in English. Hard work on the part of the patient will mean a rapid recovery and an early discharge...
...accordance with the resolutions creating the committee, instructors have been requested to report "all students whose use of English has been unsatisfactory, whether in the matter of clear and orderly thought or in the details of expression." Up to the present date, 235 students have been reported, distributed as follows: Regular undergraduates, 195 Unclassified undergraduates, 33 Students out of course, 2 Special student, 1 Graduate students...