Word: getting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...decided to make an endeavor to secure the attendance of Mr. Bryan to deliver an address at the University. Campaign literature will be distributed and a canvass made to get out the Bryan vote...
...glad to be able to publish this morning the views of a western man on Harvard's advantages to men from distant states. The CRIMSON believes heartily in the invasion of the West by Harvard organizations; and has further stated that the more Western men we can get by one way or another the easier it will be for the newcomer to lay hold on the advantages about him. An undoubted means of accomplishing this is shown by our contributor this morning. It is the duty of every Harvard man, graduate or undergraduate, to point out to his Western friends...
...faces and have any fear for the country's future was a pessimist for who there was absolutely no hope. The college man, he remarked, can see about as far into a stone wall as any man there is, but he must not be in such a hurry to get rich that he forgets his duties as an honest citizen. He recognizes the serious things in life, however, and in his hands lies the future of our Commonwealth; you are almost always sure, also, that he is going to play the game square because he is in it. The great...
...honk-honk man who whirls from the highway all who do not drive sixty-horse power machines... The punctured tire, the wayside repairs before a humerous audience, the superior man who gives advice, and all the other things of which an automobilist dreams are left untouched; perhaps we may get, a sufficient compensation in the really humorous picture of Pegasus up to date, provided with side-lights, horn, and best of all, a steering-wheel...
...Goodwin spoke on "The School and the Home." He said in contradiction to Dr. Peabody, that it is the public school and not the home that has the greatest influence upon education. The non-success in teaching is due to the failure of the teacher to get into communication with the parents. If the ideas of the parents and the teachers do not converge to a common end, good results cannot be secured from public schools. Moreover, since the greater proportion of the boys who leave school on completing the elementary grades, find themselves inadequately fitted for earning wages...