Word: manifolds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advantages of such an arrangement are manifold. The monotony of listening to the same man, week after week, is broken. Then, the student acquires a broader, and valuable knowledge of the professors in his college. And most important of all, the lecture of the specialist piques the curiosity of the student and stimulates his interest in the work...
...theory that Harvard, because of its location or some tradition at individualism, has less need for vocational guidance than other universities, is entirely out of date. Harvard seniors in this age of manifold interests, are less and less able to determine which offers submitted by numberless business concerns, are adapted to their abilities or to their tastes. It is increasingly clear to me, after discussing vocational questions for the past three years, that the great majority of Harvard seniors have no idea which held of business activity they wish to enter. They have seized eagerly any information in the form...
...would be wise to leave the matter with the mere positing of the problem. But the fact remains that time is not the same in one place as in another and that by the immutable statute of Massachusetts it is different at different times of the year. The manifold complexities of the problem indicate that it may be better to simplify the situation, and by a further extension of Puritan dialectic render tenns playing unobjectionable at all times. After all it's a pretty good game and rather more conducive to brotherly love than driving about on a crowded Sunday...
Editors Note; The above letter from Mr. Lamb is perhaps a justification of the manifold activities of the information office; but in the defense cited, his figures and in general his argument is apparently based upon a technical criterion of quantity rather than actual value...
...Elstner Talbott, widow of Engineer Talbott who built the Soo locks and many a railroad. Herself a good amateur musician, Mrs. Talbott was quick to see the worth in Conductor Williamson's work, to contribute generously her money and time. Aside from the choir, her interests have been manifold and great. She has been president of the Anti-Suffrage League in Ohio, of the Anti-Saloon League. She has been an active realtor in Miami. She is mother of nine children-seven comely daughters, all married, and two sons-Harold, a polo-playing director of Chrysler Corp., Dayton Steel...