Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...England Progressives will be held in Tremont Temple this evening at 8 o'clock. Charles Sumner 'Bird '77, Progressive candidate for Governor and Daniel Cosgrove, candidate for Lieutenant-Governor will address the gathering. The doors will be open at 7 o'clock but only for those who possess tickets. Such tickets may be obtained from R. S. Richardson '15, Grays, 10. Mr. Russell D. Crane '00, president of the Cambridge Progressive Club urges that those who so desire march into Boston with the Cambridge Progressives. The parade will leave Central Square at 6.30 o'clock...
...discharged with a conscientious regard for the public welfare; that it is not merely the size of the dividends, but the service to our fellow men for which we must account. If we are moral beings we must assume that we hold property, and every other power that we possess, to promote moral ends; that it is not enough to comply with the low standard that the fashion of the day demands, but that unless we do our duty to the utmost we are unprofitable servants. A keen French observer remarked that he had heard of America as the land...
...first and second group honors, whereas a small percentage of private school men are similarly honored. The fact of the percentages I do not question; nor, for present purposes, do I even deny the scholarly superiority of the high school. But I do join with all who possess more than a meagre knowledge of the facts in denying that the familiar old percentages prove the familiar old conclusion...
...poets for the space of one year. When they apply it to worlds, it is too much. The two stanzas by the new president of the Monthly seem to be worth all the rest of the verse in the number. They are admirable if not flawless in technique, and possess the charm of delicate feeling in melodious lines...
...engineer, then, has no limit to the possibilities of his profession. There are many positions to be filled, many directions to which inventive genius may be directed. The successful aspirant must possess certain rare qualities. He must have perfect industrial training, must be competent to conceive and plan, organize and direct, must have creative ability and sound reasoning faculties. He must be acquainted with business methods, with human nature. Faraday said: "It requires twenty years to make a man in the physical sciences." The young engineer must have infinite optimism and hope. Yet the result more than repays this delay...