Word: labors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with Senator Hollis that the University should keep in close touch with the world without its, gates, particularly in a political way. Evidently, however, he does not realize how great the progress toward this has been. We Would like to call his attention to a few casual examples of labor in outside fields by members of the Faculty-to the work of professor Swain on Engineering and Transit Commissions; to the work, within the last week, of professor Bullock in connection with the State Committee on Preservation and Taxation of Forest Lands; to the work of The of Professor Holcombe...
This should not be increased by an advertising campaign on the part of Phi Beta Kappa to induce men to "come out." The man who "comes out" and "makes" the fraternity by hard labor, just as he would make the CRIMSON, is not likely to be a very good scholar by taste and choice, and in after life he is too likely to confine his interest in scholarship to resting from his grinding and to displaying his hard...
...which was discovered Machu Picchu, the capital city of the Incas. He first told of the difficulties involved in reaching the region for research; how the party painfully plodded its way through a well-nigh impassable jungle, at the rate of a mile a day; how the problem of labor was overcome only by Peruvian police, who forced the lethargic natives to work; and how the expedition made its way over mountains, flooded torrents, and fathomless abysses...
...statement shows that the excess of receipts over expenditures was about $30,000 as compared with about $27,000 the year before. The receipts show a falling off of about $1500, while the expenses were decreased about $4500. Notwithstanding the increased cost of material and labor, economies in management have resulted in a considerable saving of money. The total amount of cash handled during the year was $245,057.52. A large part of this was for guarantees, and for the expenses of managing games, so that it cannot properly be said that the whole amount was spent on athletics...
...falls on the University track management when the meet is in Cambridge. Very few people have thought of the smoothness with which the meets of 1911 and 1913 were operated, because there were no blunders to call attention to the operation at all. Yet behind these meets was hard labor and efficient labor, and it has had its influence on the selection of the I. C. A. A. A. A. this year...