Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...listen with careful attention to the views of others. Inspired with unbounded faith and enthusiasm in the work he was doing, he was always ready to change instantly any plan or belief, if convinced of its error. He was optimistic, trustful, and appreciative, of boundless energy in the pursuit of truth, and as willing to receive as to give advice. He was an unwearied executive, equally tireless in making broad plans and in carrying out elaborate details...
Second Lieutenant Osric Mills Watkins '19, of Indianapolis, Ind., a pursuit pilot in the air service of the A. E. F., died of pneumonia on October...
...their duty to study and officers should be put over them to assist them in every practical way in doing so. Yet in time of peace, with the supreme necessity of persistent application largely removed, it is at least open to question whether students profit more from the pursuit of study under supervision than under a system of voluntary performance. It is said that many of the men, in spite of the watchful eye of the observer, do no more than gaze stupidly at their books or add their talent to the well-wrought benches in Sever...
...Fearing gave to the University were the Persius Collection, gathered by him and the late Professor Morris H. Morgan. The two men had been schoolmates at St. Mark's, and after Professor Morgan had got together a fairly large number of Persius, he naturally turned to his friend whose pursuit of angling books had brought him into correspondence with booksellers everywhere.--The result was the largest collection of the sort in America. The present "Fearing Collection" of books on angling was given to the Library, when it first occupied the new Widener Building. It contains over 12,000 volumes...
...Regiment will take part in its first night exercise of the year at Waverly tonight. Lieutenant Morize will be in charge and will conduct the exercise in two phases. The first phase will be the pursuit, emphasizing especially the role of the smaller units in this action. After the pursuit has been carried as far as possible, the troops will entrench hastily. Then the second phase of the exercise will commence, The men who have been taking part in the pursuit are supposed to be exhausted and they will be relieved theoretically by a fresh set. These two parts...