Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baltimore this same Henry Campbell haled William Hill, colored, into court for stealing the old violin out of the trunk in its owner's room. A policeman recovered the instrument from a pawnshop where it was reposing as guarantee for $1.75. At the station house a man familiar with violins looked closely at the ancient " box." He was vastly interested. He had a violin maker open the instrument. Inside was the label-" Antonius Stradivarius, Cremonensis, faciebat anno 1723." Experts said that the "Strad" was genuine...
...more it is worth doing. It may be done in any line of human activity. It may be done, indeed is most commonly done, in connection with earning a livelihood. One does not have to seek strange paths to find it, for it lies close at hand in every familiar field of endeavor; not only in the great arts, sciences and literature, but in the professions and in business of all kinds. The man who carries on his work, whatever it may be, with a clear view of its total effect for good upon the community; the upright...
This has been the case in some of the most fruitful careers. Many successful men have failed in the pursuit in which they finally became eminent, or in some other, before they learned how and where to apply their strength. Every school boy is familiar with the story of Bruce taking courage when he saw the spider spin her web on the seventh trial Abraham Lincoln's early life was far from promising. Twice he attempted to conduct a local store only to have the enterprise come to a hopeless end in a few months. Goodyear tried one experiment after...
...With the death of William W. Nolen, a personality familiar to a host of Harvard men passes out of college life. Nolen was a member of the class of 1884 and from his undergraduate days took a keen interest in young students. His attempts at academic teaching soon after graduation were not wholly successful, but he soon found himself in an endeavor to give personal help to those who he believed were in danger of failure because the over-burdened college teacher had not time enough to help them...
...preparation for entrance examinations. The scope of his work increased steadily, and in 1899 he established headquarters for his organization in Manter Hall, situated on the spot now occupied by the Waldorf. It was from his residence here that he came to be known by the title, now so familiar to Harvard students, of the "Window of Manter Hall...