Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...examining this subject, I have tried to find out what is the average amount men pay for their board, and how this price compares with the charges at the training table. From all I can gather, very few men pay more than $7 a week for board, and the average man pays approximately $5. Granted that a man in active competition requires more nourishing food than the inactive man, one concludes that training-table board should be offered for $8 or possibly $9 a week, allowing for a reasonable margin...
Small is the use of those educated men who in after life meet no one but themselves, and gather in parlors to discuss wrong conditions which they do not understand and to advocate remedies which have the prime defect of being unworkable. The judgment on practical affairs, political and social, of educated men who keep aloof from the conditions of practical life, is apt to be valueless to those other men who do really wage effective war against the forces of baseness and evil. From the political standpoint, education is a harm and not a benefit to the men whom...
...Arnold Arboretum has arranged to send Mr. E. H. Wilson, the well known English botanical collector, on a two-years' journey in central and western China to gather specimens of Chinese flora. Mr. Wilson is well qualified for this work, as he has already passed five years in China, and is well acquainted with the country and with its flowers...
...intention of the expedition to make from its headquarters at Arequipa, on the western slope of the Andes, where the Harvard Observatory is situated, trips of a few months' duration into the surrounding territory. The scientific objects of the work will be to gather all possible information on the origin, manners of life, physical characteristics, and civilization of these South American tribes of Indians about whom little is known. The only expedition of this sort made into this territory was conducted by Germans; but as their work was very incomplete, the region, from an ethnological point of view, is practically...
...scientific objects of the work will be to gather all possible information bearing on the origin, language, manner of life, physical characteristics and mental advancement of these remote tribes. It is hoped to make a complete collection of everything that may contribute to our knowledge of the races. Reports and collections will be sent frequently to the Peabody Museum. As the conclusion of the work the party will travel by boat down the Parana River, to its junction with the Platte River, down which they will pass to Argentine and Chile...