Word: likings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From the very beginning the aim of inventors has been to arise in a machine which is heavier than air. There were two kinds of these machines, one like a bird, with wings to flap, and the other like a kite. The former has turned out to be worthless, but the latter has been developed into the aeroplane. The first attempt to fly in one of these machines was made in 1894 with little success. Not until almost the beginning of this century when Langley, Chanute, and the Wright brothers turned their attention to this invention was anything like success...
...forty years this month since President Eliot faced a task like that which now confronts President Lowell. In those forty years the college of local fame has expanded into the university whose name and influence are known to all the world. The problems of the large institution are different from those of the small college; but we are confident that President Lowell will reach their solution as wisely and as certainly as his great predecessor overcame the obstacles of the last administration...
...master the law, whatever his intellectual interests may have been; and the same thing is true of the curriculum in the Divinity School. Many professors of medicine, on the other hand, feel strongly that a student should enter their school with at least a rudimentary knowledge of those sciences, like chemistry, biology and physiology, which are interwoven with medical studies; and they appear to attach greater weight to this than to his natural capacity or general attainments. Now that we have established Graduate Schools of Engineering and Business Administration, we must examine this question carefully in the immediate future...
...must be a pleasure to the Freshman whose first days in College have been all concerned with registrations, consultations, pink cards, yellow cards and the like, to see a Harvard tome (be it ever so slender) which bears on its cover so cheering a motto...
...forty years this month since President Eliot faced a task like that which now confronts President Lowell. In those forty years the college of local fame has expanded into the university whose name and influence are known to all the world. The problems of the large institution are different from those of the small college, but we are confident that President Lowell will reach their solution as wisely and as certainly as his great predecessor overcame the obstacles of the last administration...