Word: firm
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...Strafordshire, England, and entered mercantile life in New York at the age of 15. At the outbreak of the civil war he was asked by thee Secretary of the Treasury to act as the government's agent in thee sale of United States bonds. In 1877 he organized the firm of Henry Clews and Company and since then has been connected with many financial corporations on Wall street. He is the author of "Twenty-eight years in Wall Street" and "The Wall Street Point of View...
...Institute of Technology, and especially to that of President Lowell who, he hoped, would long retain his membership in the Institute's corporation. To this he added that, in those fields of work in which Harvard and the Institute seem to come in contact, it was the firm intention of the present administration to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort...
...Worcester, died at his home late Tuesday evening of typhoid fever. He was prominent when in College, being permanent secretary of his class, president of the CRIMSON, and captain of the University tennis team. At the time of his death he held a position of trust with the firm of Moffat & White, bankers, of New York, with whom he had been since he was graduated...
William Peterson, Principal and Vice Chancellor of McGill University, whose firm hand has led it with unflagging zeal in calamity and in success; representative of the progressive vigor of Canadian education...
...small number of electives in certain subjects, as a condition for entering a graduate professional school, is not inconsistent with a liberal education. But I will acknowledge a prejudice that for a man who is destined to reach the top of his profession a broad education, and a firm grasp of some subject lying outside of his vocation, is a vast advantage; and we must not forget that in substantially confining the professional schools at Harvard to college graduates we are aiming at the higher strata in the professions...