Word: hand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...culture. One cannot define or circumscribe it, for it has no precise bounds. One cannot analyze it, for its components are infinite. One cannot describe it, for it is Protean in shape. An attempt to encompass its meaning in words is like trying to seize the air in the hand, when one finds it is everywhere except within one's grasp. Culture is like what the ancient Hebrews called wisdom in that it has no fixed habitation, but is all-pervading and imponderable in its essence. Everyone who has experienced it knows something of it; no one knows...
...impossible, for example, to persuade a student of law, medicine, or engineering that literature is for him a serious matter, on a par with his technical work. General subjects are, therefore, likely to be neglected or treated lightly when studied in a school primarily professional. When, on the other hand, professional courses are introduced into a college curriculum, they are apt to suffer, not, indeed, as compared with the general subjects, but as compared with what can be accomplished in a school wholly devoted to preparation for a career. It is difficult in a college, with its alluring extra-curriculum...
...university. Some of them will study in the regular class-rooms in the various departments, and the rest will receive extension instruction from members of the faculty. A new feature of the work this year will be to give the thousands of the city's immigrants first-hand information about the duties and ideals of Americans...
...another under our observation and care. Of the 383 cases on which we have full records 318 received actual wounds by missiles--as follows: Rifle ball, 128 Shrapnel ball, 31 Shell fragment, 133 Shell fragment and rifle ball, 5 Shell fragment and shrapnel, 1 Doubtful, 5 Bomb fragments, 9 Hand-grenade, 3 Barbed wire, 1 Mine explosion, 1 Revolver ball, 1 Total...
Coaches Herrick and Haines were on hand. Head Coach Herrick gave all the candidates individual coaching on some specially arranged machines, while Coach Haines, assisted by J. Talcott, Jr., '16 and C. C. Lund '16, of the Henley crew, undertook to give the men a rudimentary knowledge of what is wanted...