Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Club of Boston, it was announced to the CRIMSON last night by J. D. Clark '03, president of the Association. The dinner is being given for the purpose of discussing plans for the future of polo at the University as well as the prospects for the immediate season, to explain what the Association has already accomplished, and to try to stimulate wider interest in polo...
...office has made every effort possible to secure a maximum number of summer jobs, through direct mail advertising and soliciting of the summer hotels, camps, and business houses in New England and New York. As the summer positions begin to come in, the staff will be glad to explain opportunities to any men who are interested...
Some two thousand learned men assembled in Washington, discussed the family, advertising, religion, voting, marketing, business-at various sessions, many held simultaneously; listened to President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley, of Yale, explain that "the only way to get low railroad rates is to attract new capital"; heard Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, of Princeton, Poland's financial savior, warn that it is time to face the probability of currency chaos caused by discovery of synthetic gold; heard Professor William Bennett Munro, of Harvard, urge science in politics, denounce "bawling at the voter"; chuckled when Professor Thomas Sewall Adams, of Yale...
...many U. S. advertising clubs had already done, the New York Advertising Club last week examined advertisements written by local pastors to explain "What the Church Has to Offer Men." The prize advertisement, written by Dr. Walter Russell Bowie, rector of Grace Church, Manhattan: "Without ideals, life is mean- "Without a purpose, it is flat- "Without inspiring power, it will fail. "The Church can give to men ideals, purposes, power. "In the lives of prophets and heroes and in the life of Jesus Christ, the Church holds up the ideals by which character and achievement must be measured...
From Buffalo went Dr. Eugene G. Wiseman to explain myopia (nearsightedness) to the American Academy of Optometry at Manhattan last week. When he said that humans still look as fishes do, his audience thought of those coldly glaring individuals popularly called "fishy-eyed" because their eyes have the impersonal stare of a dead fish. Dr. Wiseman meant that human eyes are not set squarely on the front of the face. Human eyes are cocked slightly to each side...