Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Detective Burns had some important disclosures to make in regard to detective work in general. To be a successful detective requires nothing more than good, common sense coupled with persistence and resourcefulness. The greatest drawback to the profession is rampant dishonesty, the readiness of the operatives to "sell out," as Mr. Burns expressed it. In the San Francisco graft investigation where implicit trust in his co-workers was imperative, Mr. Burns employed Stanford University students...
...Howard '07, Assistant State Superintendent of Forests of New York, will deliver a lecture on "Some Forestry Problems in the State of New York," under the auspices of the Forestry Club, in the Common Room of Conant Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to members of the University...
...That within four weeks after the beginning of college all undergraduate publications unite in holding a common smoker for Freshmen at which a representative of each paper shall be invited to speak, this common smoker in no way to interfere with individual smokers that the different publications may desire to give...
...more remarkable, and its position as the oldest college organization of the kind in the country is all the more dignified. Professor W. C. Heilman '00, of the department of Music, congratulated the Sodality on its success as an orchestra, since elsewhere organizations of pianists alone are common enough. L. G. del Castillo '14, conductor of the orchestra, reviewed the work of the year, giving a hopeful view of the prospects for the future. C. S. Parker '12, president of the Sodality, completed the list of speeches with a comment on the recent successes of the orchestra...
...John Holland Rose, of Cambridge University, England spoke before the History Club in the Common Room of Conant Hall yesterday evening at 8 o'clock. Dr. Rose is noted as a literary man, historian, and extension lecturer. His more important historical works are "The Rise of Democracy", "The Life of Napoleon I" and "The Life of William Pitt the Younger." He offered suggestions based upon his own experience for the guidance of American students intending to engage in historical research in England. Historical manuscripts are to be derived from five general sources, the Public Record Office, the manuscript department...