Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other facilities will be thrown open to the Summer School group. The tennis courts of Soldiers Field and the Weld Boat Club are available, while many entertainments and excursions are planned for the benefit of the students, with Yard concerts, special evening lectures, and visits to important points of interest in and around Boston...
...should come out with a mind rich in ideas, with a deeper knowledge of life and the meaning of life. Of course, he will have to know facts too, but they will only be important to him as forming a solid foundation for his ideas. A Senior whose primary interest is still in the dates of authors, and the names of books, and in the interrelations of sources, has wasted his four years, but yet this is the very kind of man for whom the English Department's examinations are designed. Upon such unimaginative amassing of insignificant facts the English...
...manifold. The monotony of listening to the same man, week after week, is broken. Then, the student acquires a broader, and valuable knowledge of the professors in his college. And most important of all, the lecture of the specialist piques the curiosity of the student and stimulates his interest in the work...
...England, studied chemistry at the Royal College of Science in London and the University of Munich. In 1885 he came to the U. S. Two years later he married Mary Elizabeth Owens of Cincinnati, by whom he has two daughters, two sons. For 30 years sugar refining was his interest. He was director of the American and Spreckels Sugar Refining Companies, of Great Western Sugar Co. In 1916 he retired to devote his time to chemical research. Magic is his chief hobby. He has been a modern Merlin since the age of 12. At table, if he wishes...
...arrangements was that General Motors bought into Opel, whereas I. G. F. bought into Ford. To discuss these international operations in warlike terms, the Ford-I. G. F. purchase represented a Teuton, not a U. S. aggression. Both the I. G. F. Delaware corporation and the I. G. F. interest in German Ford represented not the almightiness of the Dollar but the renewed potency of the Mark...