Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...might have had from a given study the phrase that comes to us is "If I had only known!" If we had only known what fine things lay ahead how much better would have been our beginning. And yet how were we to tell? How were we to know when we started our beginners' Latin or Greek, studying the dullest sort of composition, of the glories of classic thought and poetry. This purposeless choice and following of our elementary courses can account for more wasted time than any one factor in our academic training...
...such work as this. . . . All of you who take' advantage of the opportunity to become associated with this work will never regret having undertaken it. It is up to us who have had special advantages of education to repay our debt to society by doing our part, and I know that Harvard men are going to make their contribution." Mr. Peters concluded his speech with a tribute to Colonel Roosevelt's remarkable comradeship and personality...
...became evident in the beginning of the war when demands came to Washington for cooks, lumbermen, carpenters, etc., that it would be necessary to know where the men with such qualifications could be found. For that purpose, the Committee on Classification of Personnel was employed in classifying and placing three and one-half million men according to occupation, trade, scale, schooling, intellectual ability, etc. This committee also provided tables of occupational needs and of the specifications and personnel for the various trades. In this invaluable work the executive ability and common sense of the psychologist was of more importance than...
...John Barleycorn." The amendment by which prohibition shall be written into the Constitution, has been ratified at last by the necessary number of states. Well may the tragic minority echo the prophetic words attributed to Nat Goodwin when, blindfolded, he was given water to taste. "I don't know what it is but it will never be popular...
...have done social service work before come and learn of the opportunities offered this year. If you know little or nothing of this work, come tonight and find out the facts...