Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...earned. He knows that so long as the stock is profitable he is unlikely to be asked questions about the management; but that if as a result of conscientiousness in his dealings there is a fall in the dividends he will be called to account sharply. The stockholders will say that while he is no doubt a good man, with high principles, he is not practical, lacking in business ability, and had better be replaced. Moreover, it is not merely that his interests would lead him to subordinate other questions to the size of the dividends, that this...
...many of the above are included in an organization which terms itself the Speaker's Club? We venture to say not 50 per cent of the debaters, not 20 per cent. of the candidates for the public speaking contests, while none of those successful in the Boylston contest are "Speakers...
...best method of grading men's work, and as to the influence which the change they propose would have on professional tutoring. As, however, my concern here is with tutoring only, and as I have no desire to trespass upon the preserves of the pedagogical theorists, I need say regarding the grading merely that a piece-meal disposal of a course does not seem to me to spell scholarship. Regarding the second point, however, I can deal with facts, and facts with which, after some twenty odd years' experience as a tutor, I may claim to be tolerably well acquainted...
...first concern has no right to the name literary"; and again: "We aim, not to be professional, or in any cheap ways distinguished, but only to be as excellent as possible in the field of amateur literature." So, if amateurs in literature can do as well as they have, say in tennis or in Christianity, then the editors have set themselves a high standard; and long may they live up to it; and far removed be the day when they shall be induced to merge their magazine with any other...
...that the plan of having Seniors room in the Yard is one that should receive the support of every man interested in the betterment of our undergraduate life. Undoubtedly, the attractiveness of the Senior dormitories will be increased if electric lights are installed, and for this reason alone, to say nothing of the personal convenience involved, the proposed plan should receive the hearty support of every man who is to room in the Senior dormitories next year. If all of the Juniors directly interested enter into this plan and give it their support, a very great improvement may be made...