Word: founded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Already a low undertone of protest and complaint against the seven o'clock bell is being heard from the dwellers in the Yard. Communications and denunciations will soon appear in their annual abundance. The justification of this old custom is to be found in the fact that it is successful in calling forth words of execration and condemnation. The Senior requires something upon which to vent his discontent, and then it distracts his mind from harmful meditation on the probable results of the world war, or the possibilities of more comprehensive knowledge of the fourth dimension. As David Harum says...
...just jump to the night of August first, when we landed in Bombay. We found out right away that there wasn't much chance of our "going up the Gulf" to Mesopotamia for a few months, at least, because the staff there is now complete. To tell the truth, neither Nash nor I were much disappointed. We had met a few men who had really been there since we left New York, and there didn't seem to be much romance in going to the Garden of Eden until the summer heat had subsided and the thermometer wasn't much...
...reason for the failure of so many college graduates in the business field may be found in their own opinion that immediately after graduation they should start at the top. There are seven maxims which might well be followed. First, look well to your own self. Dress according to your station. Second, know the thing that you are doing, and know that you know it. Third, do not burn the midnight oil. He is a blockhead who cannot do all his work in the day time. It is merely a matter of concentration, pure and simple...
...closing President Eliot pointed out the fact that men of all denominations are to be found both in the Faculty and in the undergraduates. Fifty years ago practically all professors and students were Unitarians, which led many people to believe that it was an institution for instructing men of one sect. "The future of the clerical profession in this country depends upon the conforming to the standards in truth-seeking which modern science...
...representative of the Board of Preachers may be found each morning in Wadsworth House from 9 until 11 o'clock...