Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reason for the failure of so many college graduates in the business field may be found in their own opinion that immediately after graduation they should start at the top. There are seven maxims which might well be followed. First, look well to your own self. Dress according to your station. Second, know the thing that you are doing, and know that you know it. Third, do not burn the midnight oil. He is a blockhead who cannot do all his work in the day time. It is merely a matter of concentration, pure and simple...
Every applicant must be self-supporting and he must bring with him when he registers two witnesses to testify to his means of self-support and to his residing in Cambridge the required time. Another quotation from Judge Raymond states, "The applicant for registration must call two witnesses who shall testify under oath. . . ...Those witnesses shall be residents of the ward or town from which the applicant comes. . . . The witness is supposed to testify to the facts which he personally knows. . . . The laws requires that there be three men who have knowledge in the matter and you can see that...
...their sympathies with the movement which Mr. Ford represents. It is very probable that the ideas of an inventive genius, such as the man who received thirty-two votes on the first ballot for Republican nominee, will be much in demand at the close of "civilization's fight for self-preservation." Respectfully, D. E. HUDSON...
...first ballot for Republican nominee is a national joke (or disgrace) that should not pass without comment. Bismarck and Moltke must roll over in their graves, and Joffre and Sir Edward Gray turn to the American news for amusing relaxation from the colossal problems of "civilization's fight for self-preservation." M. F. TALBOT...
...administration of this agreement entered into by Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in June, 1916, it is intended that there shall be a maximum of self-government in athletic matters in each university, but it shall be understood that questions of interpretation and enforcement of the rules and all questions involved in the athletic relations of the universities may be submitted to the Committee of the Chairmen by any one of the said universities...