Word: kind
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Faculty members may possibly be said to be at one pole and the undergraduate representatives at the other, with the graduate members voting with either element according to the merits of the question. The machine itself does not seem to be in serious need of repair. It is the kind of work expected of it, and the consequences arising from the necessity for such work, that have raised the question of a change in the method of carrying on its work...
...number of men in active competition. Even under the present system, the track management, by canvassing the dormitories and looking up individuals, was able to get 436 entries for the winter carnival. Competitions for managerships would be fairer and more valuable as experience if made in work of this kind, rather than in raising subscriptions...
...conclusion that ordinarily vocational training should come last and the higher and final training, the broader and deeper, should be its foundations. But this should not prevent the pupil who has been trained at a vocational school from going to college, for it is not so much the kind of work we do but rather the satisfactory accomplishment of it that is our title to recognition and encouragement...
...have met this evening to pay tribute to a man who had, among all American authors of his time, the most individual and disarming combination of qualities. He was at once genial and guarded,--kind and cordial in greeting, but with an impassable boundary line of reserve:--dwelling in a charmed circle of thought, yet absolutely self protecting; essentially a poetic mind, but never out of touch with the common heart:--yet not so much a creator as a composer; and viewing his themes, as a very acute observer has said of him, 'in their relations, rather than in their...
...remember in after life that in the fundamentals he is very much like his fellows who have not been to college, and that if he is to achieve results, instead of confining himself exclusively to disparagement of other men who achieve them, he must manage to come to some kind of working agreement with these fellows of his there are times of course when it may be the highest duty of a citizen to stand alone, or practically alone. But if this is a man's normal attitude if normally he is unable to work in combination with a considerable...