Word: develop
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...LARGE manufacturing house wishes a brainy young man for its office. Excellent chance for business training. The successful applicant must show capacity to develop into an exceptionally able business man. Address "BRAINS...
...been made, in these columns and elsewhere, that public speaking at Harvard is on the decline. It has been said, and truly, that the college has offered but little opportunity either for those interested in debating to hear lively debates, or for those desirous of becoming good speakers to develop their powers. It is to satisfy this longfelt need of such a Union as will offer these opportunities, that the old Harvard Union has been reorganized and placed upon an entirely new basis...
...requires and especially in the discipline and training derived from it. Just what form that credit should be is another question. But it is certain that the supplementary relation the work now bears to the academic courses is not sufficient. The training on a college paper certainly tends to develop a man's talents in a practical way and it seems as if that training might be made more than supplementary, and some practical credit be given...
...first made some preliminary remarks on the development of the drama to the time of Shakespeare. In the very early times there were only vagrant performances,-wandering musicians going from place to place, and playing and reciting in castle halls. Later the church, seeing that through plays was the most efficient means of approaching the people, appropriated the drama. The performances given by it were allegorical and dull, the devil who worked largely in these moralities, alone giving them any liveliness. This continued till the people wanted something more real and natural, and began to develop the drama themselves. They...
...Immigration should be further restricted: - (a) On social grounds: - The proportion of paupers, diseased and criminal, is great. Messages and Documents, ('80-91) pp. 85: - (b) On economic grounds: - (1) No longer needed to develop the country. Pop. Sci. Mo., XLI. 762. Oct. '92 - (2) They lower wages and the standard of living; Forum XIV. 113. (Sept. '92): - (3) Unskilled occupations already overcrowded. Smith, 117. - (c) On political grounds. - (1) The Immigrants do not understand our institutions. Bryce Am. Com. I. 634. - (2) They become tools of Machine politicians; Smith. 13. - (3) They form communities by themselves, Bryce...