Word: paths
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that which dealt with the rescue of the four survivors of the "Columbian'. It was only by the merest chance that the little boat was sighted, for if two hours had not been lost in making soundings and other investigations, the "Seneca" would have been far out of its path and would have passed it in the night. The boat, distinguished by a coat fastened to a pole, was sighted three miles off. The men, when found, had only a handful of crumbs left as their rations, but after a short time all but the leader were in fair condition...
...beginning of the end for 1914 is tonight. When a class barbecues or country fairs or junkets, there is no hope. It is on the downward corkscrew path to the cold world. What do you mean--junket? It is vaguely nutritive, indefinably edible in sound. Possibly one eats or drinks junk; possibly, one just buys it. Who knows? Junket and be merry, oh Seniors, for tomorrow you may graduate...
...that the business leader must have aptitude, character, initiative; and that no sort of instruction or experience will make good the absence of these native qualities in the student. But for young men of the right natural quality it believes that its training should shorten a good deal the path to high executive positions; and that its graduates, when they have reached those positions, will be more efficient by reason of their broader training than are the men of the same quality who have had to take the longer and narrower path of growing up with the business...
...Napoleon and Cromwell were ever argued between its walls. The article on Princeton Customs, by Mr. Hunter of the Nassau Literary Magazine, is interesting enough to members of this staid old College where Rinehart nights are the chief vulgar amusement. But even at Princeton, customs are following in the path of Bloody Monday Night, which leads us to believe that Harvard is not alone so priggishly indifferent to youthful effervescence after all. "The Function of P. B. K." (if the printer has no Greek letters, why can't it be written Phi Beta Kappa?) sounds learned; but we advise...
...essential to the fulfillment of his destiny. It is not enough that we should have had our tears and have known our laughter. We must give the benefit of our tears and laughter, our hard-won patience, our wisdon and insight, to any brother who walks the same hard path beside us, to any neighbor whose simple need constitutes a claim upon...