Word: creation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...remarkable progress of the last century has established a new profession, based on laws which that progress itself has revealed. So we may now distinguish between the skilled mechanic and the newer type, the engineer. The former is actuated by commercial motives only; the latter, the creation of the advance in natural sciences, possesses knowledge rather than skill and has for his ideal the ultimate benefit of mankind. This latter type is the man we refer to when we speak of the engineer; his profession is engineering...
...well known that the present philosophical department is in very great measure the creation of Professor Palmer. It was he who, early in President Eliot's administration stood high in the councils of the President when plans were formed for the future of philosophical teaching. His advice was taken and followed regarding some of the most important early appointments in Philosophy. He was the first chairman of the department committee. No man has had more to do with guiding the fortunes of philosophy at Harvard through great difficulties, than he. And now as the moment approaches when he has been...
...Danner '13 secretary-treasurer. The purpose of the club is twofold: first to make Harvard more appreciated in Colorado, and second to bring all the Colorado men in the University into closer contact with each other. Dr. H. E. Kahn D.'06, who was influential in bringing about the creation of the club, spoke on the advantages of such an organization. In a letter which was read before the meeting John F. Shafroth, Governor of the State of Colorado, sent his congratulations to the new club...
...have we not a new party? It is because a new party can only be formed by the creation of some new principle, and this has not yet been done. The parties differ as to the application of the present principles. When a man says, "He may mean well but I don't like the way he goes at it," that man means that he does not want a man who gets results. The Progressive Movement in New Hampshire has so far been confined to state issues, but there is an indication that it will be extended to National issues...
...purposes of this contest, "International Arbitration" includes any subject specifically treated in the "Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes" adopted by the first and second Hague Conferences, or in the "Draft Conventions Relative to the Creation of a Judicial Arbitration Court" agreed to at the second Hague Conference. C. D. Pugsley '09 is the donor of the prize, and the judges are: Hon. Oscar S. Straus, a member of the Hague Court; Hon. Elmer E. Brown, Chancellor of New York University; and Rear Admiral Chales H. Stockton, U. S. N., retired...