Word: man
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Brien, the first man up for Dartmouth, made a clean single and was advanced by Reeve's two-base hit. He then came home on Keady's long fly to Greenough, and Reeve went to third, scoring on Orcutt's sacrifice. Dartmouth added another run in the fourth inning, when Orcutt scored on a base on balls, a wild pitch and Page's hit. In the eighth inning Castle made the only run for Harvard by an overthrow, a steal and Greenough's timely base-hit. In this inning, for Dartmouth, Page and Orcutt both hit safely and came home...
From the point of view of a man who comes of a family of engineers, and whose own experience has covered six continents, Mr. Rickard discussed the value of a life of engineering...
...Americans, he said, have two distinct and natural advantages; the mental qualities developed by your ancestors' contest with man and taming of nature, as well as the social equality which, in this country, requires the professional man to "kow-two" to no one. You lack neither stimulus nor opportunity; you are radiant with the success of modern materialism. The world is the mining engineer's oyster, to be opened with the weapon of skilled intelligence...
Another important quality of the mining engineer is that of being able to utilize the experience of older men. He must, furthermore, be his own doctor, and have, as every man of education should have, the quality of philosophy, which will enable him to possess some high purpose in life other than the mere attainment of fame or money...
What would be the result of expelling the one man caught (who apparently neither entered the building nor knew that the stolen tablet was in memory of Bishop Brooks) and the non-adoption of the proposed agreement? The society would then be free to continue, greater precautions of secrecy would undoubtedly be taken by its members and more trouble for the University would ensue...