Word: directed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...troops in a short space of time. At present the transportation facilities of our railroads are entirely inadequate for such an emergency. In regard to the Chamberlain Bill he said that it provided for an enormous mass of semi-trained men without an adequate force of officers to properly direct the unmanageable numbers. It would be axactly like building a house and then constructing the scaffolding afterwards...
Edison has repeatedly maintained that his success is principally the result of perseverance, and he declares that genius is "one-tenth inspiration and nineteenths perspiration." This view seems to be logical, but at the same time in direct contradiction to the theory that President Lowell has so often expounded. The latter declares that the world needs men who have the imagination to find new problems, and emphatically not the kind of men who can automatically solve any problem that is presented to them...
...hope that some of them will contribute to this most worthy undertaking, even at a time when the need for help in Europe is so great. Why do we take this position? Because even in the south people are beginning to realize that if the colored people are to direct their footsteps towards efficiency, probity and useful citizenship, there must be among them great leaders and great teachers. This is precisely the opportunity and need which Atlanta University is living up to. Teachers who assume the higher responsibilities are as entitled to training schools of the best type...
Since the Bureau was established two years ago it has accomplished a great tieal, particularly last year which was an extremely good one, but so far this season only nine men have taken advantage of the opportunity. No direct tutoring is undertaken, but men who apply for assistance are advised by those who have achieved scholarship standing in the particular courses with which they are having difficulty. The Bureau simply endeavors to show men the best methods of study and how to take notes properly. No charge is made for any services given...
Charles A. Stone, Technology 1888, retiring president of the Association, emphasized the fact that it is the technically trained men who are fighting the battles abroad today; who will direct the reconstruction after the conflict, and who will be needed to prepare this country for the altered industrial conditions after...