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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...industry in which our nation is so weak? To this work Pennock gave everything. He was working without a guiding hand in the no man's land of science and Industry; he had to overcome difficulties which no one had ever encountered before; he met phenomena which had never been met before and which carried with them the forces of sudden death and destruction. Only those who have similarly trod uncharted lands know the terrible obstacles of discouragement and disappointment which nature places in the way of the explorer...
...very similar to that of the man who sees the patient labor of days turned into so much junk by an unexpected manifestation of the hidden forces of nature. Pennock met all these obstacles in the only way in which they can be successfully met: with a smile. He never acknowledged difficulties and troubles. In this way he surmounted them one by one till the first peak was fairly reached: triumph seemed assured in the first process: from that time on the way would be easier. However, he was not to go further, his life was demanded as the ultimate...
...those whose sympathies lean to the cause of France, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, Russia and the other members of the Entente. The exhibit will attract those who are strictly neutral in their feelings and also those who favor the ultimate supremacy of the Central Powers. There will be exhibits never before shown in this country, articles of great and small value for sale and entertainment by the world's greatest artists...
...plunging, of long distance running, of athletic leaping over intervening horses, wagons, and automobiles, only to arrive as the last car of his train rolls majestically from the South Station. The great work is complete at last; science is vindicated. The oldest Senior who said gloomily that it would never be finished is a prophet without honor. In short, the subway tunnel to the South Station has become a reality...
...From the ordinary student rocker in the top story of a rooming house may be expressed in college slang, truths which are as great as any which were exhaled from the Greek oracles. Students thus decide to their own satisfaction some of the fundamental questions which otherwise they might never have figured out. A wealth and variety of experiences, and a healthy difference of opinion, all of these do much to sweep away the trivialities and bashfulness of college life, and in the quiet familiarity of the small group, allow the real things to shine forth. In this light, ideas...