Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...speeches at tonight's Engineering Dinner should possess interest for a large and varied number of men. Naturally, for engineering students, both graduate and undergraduate, the occasion will be of exceptional value. In addition, the fact that tonight's remarks will treat the different phases of engineering will render them valuable for two other classes of students. To men in the elementary stages of engineering study, who have not yet decided upon the particular branch of their profession which they will ultimately adopt, tonight's exposition of the whole field should be of aid in determining in this final choice...
Obviously, then, if class buttons possess value for Seniors (and their retention by seven successive classes is strong evidence that they do), such insignia would render much greater service to Freshmen...
...Forest School has been greatly strengthened during the present academic year by the addition to the teaching staff of Austin Cary, Lecturer on Lumbering and Forest Engineering, and Edward E. Carter, Assistant Professor of Forestry. These two men possess, in addition to marked ability in special fields of technical work, a comprehensive and intimate acquaintance with the organization and management of the lumber business and the National Forest Service, the two great fields in which foresters find employment...
...adopting some such course, there would be a Student Council of real worth and one that would possess the hearty approval of the undergraduates. If, on the other hand, the present scheme is ratified we will be in possession of a Council with a hastily constructed and faulty constitution. A constitution which precludes the possibility of the new Council becoming a real and effective force in the undergraduate world...
...advantages that such a tutoring system would possess over the existing one must seem many and obvious. Although, no doubt, there are now some tutors who have a real knowledge of their subject and are conscientious in their work, still the majority are, at best, mediocre. On the other hand, a capable man who is doing the work of a course regularly and thoroughly, would be perfectly competent to impart instruction to his less fortunate or less energetic fellow-classmen. Such a plan would supplement the work of the Price Greenleaf Fund and the other "aids" which the Faculty employs...