Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already established active relations with similar bodies in Europe." These aims are strikingly parallel to those of the U. S. F. A., and as such they are to be commended. Furthermore an association which includes on its executive committee shoulder to shoulder, a Y. W. C. A. leader and a Milwaukee banker-philanthropist, a university president and a Chautauqua manager, a Standard Oil executive and a Trades Union League director, the secretary of the American Library Association and the Chairman of the Ford Ball Forum, inadvertently demonstrates the potential usefulness of organized educational cooperation in most striking fashion...
...Freshman leader prepared for Harvard at St. Mark's School, where he played football three years, captaining his team during his last year of schoolboy play. Wetmore is the lightest man on the 1930 squad this year, tipping the scales at 140 pounds...
...Then by confessing to him (man to man) your own former weaknesses you will elicit a full confession from him. . . . This is often the kind of drastic, spiritual operation which alone can prevent a superficial repentance and unreal conversion. In New York City, last winter, a university student leader came to talk with Mr. Buchman about entering the Christian ministry. . . . Mr. Buchman answered his questions on the ministry to the best of his ability, but still the man seemed unsatisfied. They had finished dinner with little accomplished, and Mr. Buchman then invited him to his room for further conversation...
...reflection of their author's real acquaintance with solitude. Miss Gather is nearly 50 now; sociable when she likes; vigorous, cheerful, charming. But more and more she is a recluse who, having had experience as country girl (Nebraska), college girl (Nebraska State), reporter and editor (Pittsburgh Leader and McClure's Magazine), teacher and archaeologist, enough to "last a lifetime" is increasingly a subtle artist after the Wordsworth formula, "emotion recollected in tranquillity...
...Western minds, Rama Krishna, then, is an eminently unsatisfactory religious leader. It is impossible to place him. He did not do anything great; he merely lived. He could barely read and write. Yet he numbered among his disciples the greatest social reformer in the India of the time, the greatest dramatist, and two or three of the greatest scholars...