Word: firm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lack of interest in the track team has been bewailed. At present the graduate committee are fully awake to the disheartening condition and are carefully investigating the reasons for the existing apathy. Much is needed before track at Harvard can be put on a firm, successful basis. Undoubtedly the two committees now at work will establish a real system for directing in a business like way the activities of the track team. The best of systems is merely a skeleton and must be supplemented with good administrators and eager workers. Today the yearly competition for the managers begins. Without good...
...most important service of the Harvard Surgical units that have gone to France to serve in the war zone is not humanitarian but lies in their capacity to demonstrate that the American people as individuals are firm in their belief in "the inalienable right to freedom of thought and freedom of action." This statement by Dr. Hugh Cabot, the leader of the present unit, is not aimed at disparaging the great medical and surgical value of the units to France. He rather emphasizes the point that through the work and sacrifices of these units the Allies have been brought...
...Smith with fortunate results mixes the scholar with his impossible Treitschkean system of philosophy with John Paul and his ideas. Result, a combination transferring the tailor to the saver of a great shipbuilding firm, and the scholar to his private secretary...
...comes, with that naval power which alone is capable of reinforcing our efforts and of making them effective. We must prepare for whatever eventualities an impending state of war makes probable. We must train and equip our citizens so that our policy as it develops shall be not only firm but united and powerful...
...Monthly. Immediately on leaving college he was engaged in newspaper work on the New York Tribune for two years. Thereafter for nine years he was active in the manufacturing and mercantile business. After that he was engaged in the banking business, later entering the J. P. Morgan firm. He is also a director of various corporations. Mr. Lamont is "the man behind" the movement for the $10,000,000 fund to be added to the vested interests of the University...