Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knowledge in order to become a specialist." One is tempted to ask in what profession today the same is not the case. The inductive method has forced specialization upon the university, that and the knowledge that in generalizations of the Marks, Pingree variety are no approach to truth. The leader in college work must know his field, minutae as well as the grander and more sweeping syntheses...
Capt, Coady was the only University player to take part in the half hour punting session allotted each afternoon at the beginning of practice. The Harvard leader, who surprised the crowd in the Stadium by taking over the kicking assignment unheralded and averaging better than 41 yards from the line of scrimmage has apparently lost none of the skill he displayed a year ago, and is fairly certain to keep the Crimson well in the running during the remainder of the season. French was in uniform yesterday, spending the bulk of the afternoon practicing passes with Putnam and Guarnaccia...
...orchestra? In mid-season form, well-disciplined, beautiful strings, hesitant brasses. Conductor Stock? An excellent leader, sure, scholarly, sane. Too sane, some said, called him dry, bloodless...
...soon learns for himself. He achieves a tremendous success, Despite the courtly, portentous Earl of Ockleford, whose dignity as leader of the Lords is offended by Andy's failure to consult him about Sam's peerage; despite domineering Tom Hogarth, Minister of Munitions; despite gloomy Hasper Clews of the Exchequer, and bitterly disdainful military at the War office. He really accomplishes very little at his ministry beyond somewhat quelling Anglophobia in the French press, dispelling fear of pacifism at home, and tendering a magnificent banquet to an invasion of officious overseas journalists. But he charms the journalists into...
...sees in Maximilian the representative of a humane, idealistic principle of government. He would, with kindness, mold superstitious peasants, renegades into a nation. Napoleonic ruthlessness he forbids. Opposed to him looms the sinister Juarez, man of implacable power, one who "has never had a dream." The native leader, never brought upon the stage, is constantly felt to be the spirit that directs deadly forces against the wavering royalist's policy. Betrayed, deserted, defeated by himself, Maximilian goes to his doom, a failure in living for his cause, but strong in dying for it. All this is presented against...