Word: finding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...earnest conviction above all. I saw in one young group of Columbia law students three or four men at least out of a dozen that would make useful newspaper workers. I believe that in devoting their lives to the fights of the people through journalism, these young students could find greater happiness than in selling their energies to corporation fights in the court-room...
...work as hard as he can for the millions of human atoms unknown to him, as he is unknown to them. Let him find satisfaction in good work and be content to say with the old philosopher of Weissnich: Two writings of mine, not indeed known as mine (for what am I), have fallen, perhaps not altogether void, into the mighty seed-field of Opinion; fruits of my unseen sowing gratifyingly meet me here and there. I thank the Heavens that I have now found my calling; Wherein, with or without perceptible result, I am minded diligently to persevere...
...only way that the air may be kept at all fresh is by a judicious use of the windows. If the lecturers and instructors would only give the matter a little personal attention, instead of relying on the chance public spirit of some member of the course, they would find the attention accorded their remarks noticeably improved...
...purposes of the organization are to draw the foreign students more closely into the life of the University and to provide them with social opportunities and conveniences which they, as strangers, can less readily find under present conditions. With this club the University will derive more benefit than at present from the large number of students representing the manners and customs, special abilities, opinions, feelings, and points of view characteristic of many foreign countries. The large foreign contingent at Harvard is an "asset" as yet incompletely realized by the University for its own advantage...
...must be admitted that under present conditions the number of men from whom Memorial Hall can ever hope to draw is decidedly limited. Club tables, Randall Hall, and the Union all take their share; but even so there are enough men left who, under a more suitable system, would find Memorial Hall a very valuable adjunct to the University. The fact that they have not done so proves, not that the hall has become unnecessary, but that it has not satisfied the needs as it should. Price of board, quality of service, dislike of paying for meals never eaten, have...