Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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"Charles William Eliot, teacher, administrator, orator, prophet; forty years the leader and guide of Harvard, and in the single-minded elevation of his character a model to her sons; the father of the present American university, the brother of all teachers, and the friend of every lover of his country...
Mr. Lyman commenced by thanking the ambassador for the honor which he had just conferred on President Eliot, "one who is in himself the embodiment, in the western hemisphere, of high ideals and righteousness." He then spoke of President Taft, "better equipped for his position than any president, who always...
Mr. R. C. Ogden gave an interesting lecture in the Union last evening on retail trade as a profession for college men. This was the second of the series of lectures on the professions arranged by the Governing Board of the Union. The speaker said that he realized that business...
Rutherford B. Hayes was a quiet, unobtrusive man, who has been greatly misunderstood. While President Garfield was dying at Elberon, Mr. Wise went to Mr. Arthur's house to tell him of the President's condition. He was a man of great ability, with a thorough knowledge of the duties...
Mr. Frothingham spoke largely on political principles, outlining what the people really expect of a man in political life. The only thing that induced him to enter politics, he remarked, was that the machine said he could not win; in the same way many apparently one-sided issues, when left...