Word: man
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scrub relay team composed of H. Watson '10, F. M. de Selding '10, E. K. Merrihew '10, and R. C. Foster '11 easily defeated the Newton Y. M. C. A. team, Foster finishing with a lead of about 80 yards. Each man ran 2 laps, making a total distance of 1280 yards. The time was 2 minutes, 10 2-5 seconds...
...students of Yale University, request that you print a warning to beware of a man representing a certain New York engraving company, selling a bronze seal, banners, etc. Visiting Yale he made several hundred dollars illegally...
...Last Thursday a man went through the campus dormitories, and by representing himself to be an agent of a New York firm, which was closing out in stock, obtained a great many orders for seals and banners. His offer included a bronze Yale seal, a leather banner, and half a dozen Yale pennants for $3.50. The extremely low price of the articles was explained by the desire of the firm to dispose of its stock at once, on account of a recent failure. The failure was also given as a reason for the demand for immediate payment, and the delivery...
...leaders who in the coming generation must have the prominent places in politics, in commerce, in education. To this end the university must be not merely a place for thinkers and scholars, but for education that is not scholasticism, but the co-ordinating of all the gifts with which man is endowed. The world is greedy for leadership, so much so that it is easily imposed on by demagogues. It is all the more necessary then that you should become honest, straightforward leaders. A leader is only a high type of man; though he must go before his followers...
...man is no less a leader because he has few followers, for the true leader of men cares not for himself, but only for his cause and his followers. This is the metaphysic of leadership, simple in the extreme, the passion for the goal. True, that goal is not always reached, but there is motion toward it. Many a leader has gone through life with no recognition of his ambitions and efforts, only after death to have his plans utilized and his greatness appreciated. And what is this goal toward which nations, no less than individuals, are striving? We cannot...