Word: maining
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...practically all managership competitions--those for University football and baseball alone excepted--the main work is the collection of money. At the start of the competition the understanding is that the man who collects the most money will get the job, provided he is personally acceptable. This underlying condition has led to many sharp decisions and much ill-feeling--we cite no instances, but the air is full of them. This must necessarily continue, so long as the present system is adhered to. What is the use of having a competition, if the best competitor does...
...University the right thing at the right time." He said, "College training must mean something more than the bare intellectual sense. The college man is not to be made from books alone, athletics and the social side of college life are equally as important. The main business of the college, however is in fixing a standard for men. By this standard men go through life, and it is the purpose of the college to encourage a standard that is not so high as to be impossible of attainment, and yet not so low as to prove a detriment. The college...
...into the basement of the present building and that this would not leave enough room for the steadily increasing transactions of the store. The opportunity offered to open a branch at Thurston's was just what the society wanted. The new store is more centrally situated than the main building, and should add materially to the financial success of the institution...
During the April recess a drinking fountain was built in the main hallway of the Union towards the Periodical Room. The fountain is a memorial to Thomas Simms Bettens '74 and bears the following inscriptions: "He taught the classics with distinction for twenty-eight years in a secondary school in New York City and won the respect and affection of his pupils by his cheerful patience, justice, and hopeful sympathy. He was simple in his desires, sincere and unaffected in friendship, modest in all relations. This fountain is the gift of his boys, including graduates of Harvard, Yale, Princeton...
...government of the Hebrews, said Dr. Abbott, was far in advance of the times, and forms a large basis for American institutions. The main features of the ancient Jewish government were the division of authority into legislative, judicial, and executive bodies; the existence of two representative bodies, the Great Congregation and the Council of Elders; the first constitutional king known to history; freedom of speech; free industrial education provided by law; and an established church, to which membership and support were optional. The Levitical Code was regulative, not mandatory. It did not require worship, but prescribed absolute forms for those...