Word: finding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ministers. They are better executives and business men than prophetic leaders. Scientific men, chiefly interested in knowing things, caring mostly for truth for the truth's sake, while they are not infrequently found in the profession, are not the most at home there. The type of man who will find his place in the ministry is of the expressive or artistic sort; the man who is not so much interested in practical or intellectual as literary and creative matters. Men who have a natural predisposition for the interpretation of life, who like to express themselves and to try to express...
About 25 men attended the first meeting of the Wireless Club in the Cruft Memorial Laboratory yesterday afternoon. Professor G. W. Pierce '99. Director of the Cruft Laboratory, presided, T. R. Pennypacker '16 was elected temporary president and S. W. Dean '19 temporary secretary. A committee to find a club room for the society was elected, composed of the officers and A. S. Francis '18 and E. F. Henderson...
...translation from Catullus, add good things to the number. In spite of an imitative and derivative air about most of these productions, patent confessions of the amateur's willingness of spirit and lack of skill, there is much promise and considerable present fulfilment. It is somewhat surprising not to find the poets rhyming about matters more pressing than the woods in Aiken, S. C., or a cavalier's song, with the Great War so near us that an ex-President of the United States writes on preparedness in this very number. Yet this number of the Advocate is, with...
...American student, according to Professor Reed, has never been able to enjoy the privilege every foreign student possesses: the opportunity to find old books for himself, to browse about shelves untroubled by a clerk at his elbow. Although students here are as fond of reading as those across the sea, there are no counterparts in this country of book stores near Charing Cross, London, or those of Oxford and Cambridge, or the cases of books along the Seine. Here even the library stacks are closed to students, and yet one of the surest ways to become interested in books...
...team this year, will continue at his old position. Two good men for the other guard have been found in Galt and Zenner of the 1919 eleven, and although C. Sheldon may be shifted from tackle to guard, the chances are that one of the two will find J. Sheldon's place. McGrath is another possible candidate...