Word: helping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order to bring the universities of the United States into closer touch with the needs and demands of the large commercial institutions of the country; to help students to come to an early decision as to their life work; and at the same time to assure them of an opening in a business for which they have been specially trained, the National City Bank of New York has established a "business fellowship". This fellowship enables students selected by the universities and colleges of the country to spend their summer vacations in training in the National City Bank during their course...
With so able a staff of instructors and with the help of the McKay Endowment, the University, should have no difficulty in making the Engineering School one of the best in the country...
...graduate known his general subject, and is also, in respect of it, an educated person. It ought to improve the quality and widen the range of instruction, if the point of view of the professor and that of the student are not to be hopelessly divergent. It ought to help redeem the summer vacation, now so striking an anomaly in an age of conservation. It ought to stimulate a more generous reading of standard books, outside of the class-room assignments, in the field in which the student is concentrating, and to add to the value of the tutorial system...
...American lines and carried on his reconnaissance until stopped by fire from German snipers that wounded Lieutenant Dellatre. Although under carefully directed fire and in grave danger, he attended the French lieutenant and remained with him for four hours until under cover of darkness he was able to help him to a place of safety. The information obtained by his reconnaissance was of great value to the artillery...
...present a natural re-action due to the war which makes us treat most things as inconsequential. The sooner we can take an active, unselfish interest in ordinary worth while matters, the better. A few words to a friend, uncertain about choosing college might be of real help to him and the University...