Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other hand the Harvard type seemed to be open to criticism for opposite reasons. In the first place, the requirement of a college degree for entrance renders such a school impotent to serve the public which is clamoring for admission in large centers like New York. Comparatively few men who intend to go into business can afford, whether from the material or from any other point of view, to wait until they are twenty-four or twenty-five years of age before entering upon a practical business career. And it is questionable whether even a few captains of industry will...
...race against an opponent who has broken his leg, and those who have cherished the loftiest hopes for our future academic development would, I believe, prefer that we wait a generation or two longer rather than that we should align ourselves with the commercial interests that are hovering like carrion vultures above the battlefields of Europe...
There is reason to hope for a speedy solution of this problem, which has been an absolute block to business-like plans of expenditure...
Perhaps the most interesting feature in the construction of the stage is the steam curtain. A pipe will extend across the entire front and whenever a curtain is needed the steam will be released from openings in the pipe, forming a curtain-like cloud from the foot of the stage, rising to a height of 40 to 50 feet. The effect will be that of a drop curtain...
...frequently men have merely retaining minds which are capable of remembering any number of barren facts gained from the works of other men. But, unfortunately, a machine-like mind is not at a premium in the business and professional circles of today. The young man with a constructive mind is alone able to cope with existing problems. Thousands of men can add up columns of figures correctly, remember any number of recorded law cases, or know every law in chemistry,--but it is the exceptional man who with the aid of a constructive mind, can establish an improved system...