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Word: sakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unwise to put in a tank, a ventilating system, or other permanent improvements, there is certainly no excuse for not keeping the building and the equipment clean. The statements made in the communication are not at all exaggerated. The building is really in such a state that for the sake of good feeling between the colleges no visiting team should be allowed to enter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GYMNASIUM AGAIN. | 4/10/1909 | See Source »

...engineer should be a thorough master of chemistry, physics, mathematics, and mechanics; he should have the true scientific spirit, the love of science for its own sake, and the love of truth for truth's sake. But above everything else he should be eminently practical and be able to apply his knowledge. The engineer must not only be a scientific man, but also a business man. His place is not in the study and laboratory but out in the world. His duty is not alone to apply the forces of nature but to do so economically; not only to build...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LECTURE ON ENGINEERING | 3/12/1909 | See Source »

...first address. He pointed out the lack of home influence on students in the grammar schools and said that they must be worked with individually. Professor W. T. Foster '01 of Bowdoin College emphasized the need of backbone in college administration to prevent standards from being lowered for the sake of larger numbers. H. W. Holmes '03, chairman of the Committee on Educational Progress, then read an abstract from his report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meeting of Teachers' Association | 3/8/1909 | See Source »

...rest of the contents are of good average quality--for candidates. One story, "The End of the Quest," by S. Bowles, Jr., is the kind of tale for which the Advocate was long famous, direct, virile, and with an ending. The tendency towards melodrama one forgives for the sake of the actual interest. Two of the others belong also to well-recognized types: "Jack's Affair with his Conscience" recalling a familiar episode in Mr. Flandreau's book, and "A Symphony in D-Minor" being a variation on the familiar theme of Mr. Owen Wister's "Philosophy 4." The fantastic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of Current Advocate | 3/3/1909 | See Source »

...limitation of our theme will exclude all narrative and religious teaching of the Gospels. The ethical teaching is inexplicably interwoven with the religious, and Jesus never separated the two, but for the sake of convenience an arbitrary division has been made. The great proportion of the teachings of Jesus are ethical with a religious background...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOBLE LECTURE YESTERDAY | 2/24/1909 | See Source »

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