Word: manly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...activity depends upon the character of the individuals who undertake it; if the body politic is to be strong the individuals composing it must be correspondingly strong. The requisites for the successful discharge of the duty of citizenship are four--intelligence, common sense, honesty, and courage,--and a man who possesses all of these is certain to be a factor for good in the community, rather than for evil. The same qualifications make the successful officeholder, for he is simply a trustee for the individuals who have elected him. Every man in public life must enter upon his official career...
...engineering or of the law or of literature will make them good engineers or lawyers or journalists. But such a view is wrong, for a knowledge of men is an essential to success as a knowledge of subjects. Dr. Abbott then showed that in almost all the professions a man, to be successful, must know and be interested in people. The success of the preacher lies in his ability to put himself at one with his congregation; the teacher must know not so much his subject as how to open the minds of his pupils and make them understand...
...going about the study of men, it is first of all essential to see what is to be done; in the second place it must be done sympathetically and not critically. For it is axiomatic that it is impossible to change another man's point of view unless one knows and understands that point of view. Consequently, in trying to influence others one must interweave one's mind and interests, and even will, with the minds and interests and wills of others. To do this, it is necessary, in reading, to know the books and newspapers of the opposite side...
...musical program for the vesper service in Appleton Chapel at 5 o'clock this afternoon is as follows: "Judge Me, O Lord," Mozart; "God is Love," Shelley; "Blessed is the Man," Knox,. Front seats will be reserved for students and officers of instruction and their families until 4.45 o'clock...
...sized mounted photographs of every member of the Senior class. There will be somewhat of a change this year, and in place of three very briky volumes, one medium-sized book bound in full morocco, will contain the platinum prints, in reduced size, eight to a page, of every man in the class...