Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this little book, Professor Mather gives a straight-forward account of a scientist's attempt to come to terms with the Administrator of the Universe. Few men have been as successful in pointing out the link between religion and science. During many years it has been his fortune to help undergraduates and others, in public address and by private counsel, to see that scientific truth can not conflict with religious truth. Quick to discern the assumptions of both science and religion, he suggests that both adhere to an experimental fact-finding method of considerable severity, with open mind where...
Pointing with pride at prosperity, viewing Tammany with alarm, the G. O. P. of New York State went into convention at Syracuse to choose men to help dislodge the Brown Derby from its native perch...
...wish that I could help you further in the matter of mathematics. The excuse for the existence of that science is given in Lincoln's words: 'For fellers who like that sort of thing, it is just about the sort of thing they like'. There is very little inspiration for any one else...
...Clubs. During the first year, after the first-year men have been organized into courts, the qualifying round takes place. Each man must argue at least three cases during the year. He must argue the first case alone against a member of his own club, the second with the help of a member of his club against two other members of it, and the third with the help of one of his fellows against two members of another club. In the second year, an elimination round is held in which the various clubs argue a certain number of cases with...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., young publisher of three tabloids which died quickly, was completely reconciled, last week, with his parents, Gen. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. "They no longer oppose my career as a journalist," said Son Vanderbilt, as he continued writing pieces for syndicates and magazines to help pay off his tabloid debts...