Word: details
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bulletin describing in detail the management of the School's forest at Keene, N. H., is about to be issued...
...requirements in their present form became operative in 1911. Experience seems to indicate the possible desirability of certain changes of detail, though not of principle. Among the changes suggested are a reduction in the total number of entrance examinations such as would be gained, for instance, by combining into one examination the separate tests in grammar, elementary prose composition, and Cicero and sight translation of prose, or by using the comprehensive papers which the University, Princeton, and Yale employ; a reduction in the amount of prescribed reading in Virgil and in Cicero with the provision that the prescribed portions...
...stage has been shipped to New Haven in sections, hundreds of pieces being required to contain the various parts which were so designed that it took only six hours to set up the entire stage, complete in every mechanical detail and ready for the performance...
...explained in detail in the early fall papers, and although the competition is hard and takes a great deal of time, the accuracy and concentration which are developed are invaluable. The broad in sight into college activities is also another useful end of the competition, as well as the practical training in handling business...
...might be good, was often not immediately serviceable in business. His mind might be active, his vision broad, and his ideals high, but frequently he did not function properly in the initial stages of his business career. He was apt to be impatient with exacting routine and wearisomely repeated detail operations, because he did not realize their significance. He often sought promotion, not merely because the pay was higher but because the work was more interesting, before in his employer's opinion he was fitted for the work of the organization he had entered. Sometimes, when only ignorant that there...