Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course, and in some instances students should have special preliminary training in order to gain from the expert all that may be possible. Such lectures, if worthy of introduction, should be scientific and should not be made additional work or optional, but an integral part of the course. This point of view is essential for the student and stimulating to the lecturer. It is said that in many sections of the country a course may be given in one or more institutions by a lecturer or instructor from a neighboring institution, or several institutions may co-operate in securing...
...wrote her husband in reply to a note informing Stevenson of the source of some allusions in "A Gossip on Romance," a magazine article of 1883 written by the English literary man on his dim recollections of some stories his parents read to him when a boy. The third point he makes is more generally interesting and amusing than the first two. The point of the letter is that Mr. Ireland had, as he himself declared, addressed the epistle with "inspired stupidity" to "Mr. R. L. Stephenson." The letter reads as follows: Hyeres, Var, France...
First and Runner-up prizes will be given: also a championship shield to the school which wins the greatest number of points, each match won counting as one point. The winner of the tournament will have the right, as Harvard Interscholastic Champion for 1916, to play at the West Side Tennis Club, at Forest Hills, L. I., in August for the National Interscholastic Championship of the United States...
...enforced, approaching Arlington Heights from the north. The 1st Infantry has taken up a defensive posi- tion through Arlington from Town Hall, along Broadway and Pleasant street, to Pleasant and Kensington streets, both inclusive. The 3d Infantry is at Payson Park. Our advance cavalry is retiring on this point...
...with many public contacts, that has first felt these forces, and therefore has sought systematically to enlist broadly trained men. The smaller concerns are now falling into line. Business leaders began looking for young men who could use their minds, who could analyze problems and take a fresh point of view. They found that college graduates were likely to have the qualities they sought, activity of intellect, breadth of interests, and some familiarity with scientific method...