Word: proved
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rare for a research worker of the first rank to be also a real teacher of his subject. It is even rarer for such a man to prove that he is not a mere cultured ornament of a practical world but a strong support in time of need. Professor Sabine was all three. Science remembers him for his studies in acoustics. The men of the University hold him dear for those hours in Jefferson when notes and books were forgotten as "sound ghosts" and electric discharges were made real by a man who had explored all their wonders...
...humanitarian or military aspects, has been and should be regarded as its real purpose. Certainly, those of us who have sacrificed not only our time but in all probability our future prospects to the transaction of this work have not done so without the hope that this might prove to be the durable satisfaction to be obtained by the maintenance of the Harvard Unit as an integral part of the Royal Army Medical Corps...
...held under the patronage of the Cambridge Red Cross in the interest of a popular discussion of a League of Nations. The Forum meetings will begin at 8 o'clock in the Hall of the Browne and Nichols School, 20 Garden street, Cambridge, Mass. In case this Hall should prove inadequate, the Forum will be transferred to the First Congregational Church, and on December 16 to 18 to the First Unitarian Church...
...these men is called to the fact that the proportion of non-college, men who really succeed in life is rapidly becoming infinitely small. Inherent ability without scientific training is becoming of less importance each year. The few exceptions to this rule which still exist merely serve to prove that the man without a college training is the real man without a chance. Do not become one of them. Choose the road which leads to a bigger and more satisfactory life-it is the which leads through the University...
...credit for all this work, and their efficiency will be a great factor in determining their rating as possible officer material. This war has clearly shown that colleges are the natural reservoirs for officer material, and all members of the S. A. T. C. will be given opportunity to prove themselves capable of becoming officers after further training. Some of the more experienced men are being sent to Central Officers' Training Schools as vacancies occur, but it is primarily essential that the greater part of the men should settle down to physical and mental work. At present it is planned...