Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This period in which we are living today is a period of inflation--a huge bubble. Sooner or later that bubble must burst. Let us, then, strengthen our foundations and principles, so that we may have something firm and solid beneath us, rather than strive, by unproved theories and sweet-sounding phrases to prick the bubble and let ourselves fall into--what? This is what we want to find out. What is there in store for this country should we adopt Socialistic or Soviet doctrines...
...theory that it employs no new constants and that it does not depend on any assumptions hitherto unheard of. The only two constants that are used are the now well recognized ones of Newton's Law of Gravitation and the velocity of light. It has, therefore, a firm foundation and skeptical scientists will have no easy task in their attempt to undermine...
...effort to place the Actors' Fund of America on a firm financial basis, the actors and actresses now playing in Boston will hold a benefit ball on Friday, December 5, at the Cambridge Armory, to which all members of the University are invited. The ball is part of a nationwide campaign to secure funds by other means than public subscription for the alleviation of distress among needy members of the profession...
...experiment that may have far reaching results in both industry and education is being attempted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its departments are to be opened for consultation to any manufacturing corporations desiring information on the same basis of rates as an engineering firm. The cry has always been raised to make education more practical; to make it more nearly conform to later requirements of the outside world. In no institution does this state of affairs come to pass more nearly than in a scientific professional school. The benefit of this consulting system to Technology will lie in bringing...
John Kirkland Clark, a member of the New York law firm of Murray, Prentice and Clark, has been appointed Lecturer on New York Practice at the Law School for the current year. Mr. Clark was graduated from Yale in 1899, and took his degree sum laude in 1902 at the Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review...