Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...practice successfully in a large city. A consulting practice provides a large income, but necessitates wide experience. Many men now prepare directly for this career by six or eight years of extra study. The surgeon requires many years of training, but his income is large. For specialized work less training is required than for surgery, but its remuneration is smaller...
...able young man, who is careless enough to show his ability early in his career, finds himself at the end of his Junior year the secretary of this organization, the treasurer of that, a member of an executive committee of still another society, and probably implicated more or less in athletics at the same time. When he is finally chosen for a class committee in his last year, he will probably begin to realize the absurdity of the whole thing. First to be neglected is his College work and then his various duties are liable to suffer in the reverse...
...being put to considerable trouble by the men who will not make applications or do any thing else in this world until the last minute. The class of 1910 has followed this custom excellently and differs only from the classes that have preceded it in being more annoying and less ready to aid the committee than any class within our memory...
...expected that the University team would win. This success was due in some measure to the better chances for practice in this vicinity where continuously cold winters were once in order. Of recent years the weather authorities have adopted different tactics and today an advantage in latitude is of less consequence than access to artificial ice. The University team has had just five days of practice on ice in Cambridge, including the games played, and but for the time spent in New York during the holidays it would be hopelessly handicapped in the game with Princeton tonight...
...University team has had less than a week's practice on the ice since the recess, but the work this week, although for two days only, has been excellent. The men have speed and endurance, but their team play is very ragged at times. The defence however, has proved consistently strong, and has allowed few scores...