Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...course may be completed in four years. The required work in the first and second years does not differ very materially from that in engineering or the other departments, and for this reason a student may change his courses even at the end of the second year without serious inconvenience. Specializing in mining and metallurgy begins in the third year...
GENTLEMEN:--After careful consideration of the plans which have been recently submitted to me for the construction of new buildings for and the equipment and endowment of the Harvard Medical School, I am happy to say that I have reached the conclusion that the serious and important work which is to be done there in connection with pathology and bacteriology would have most strongly commended itself to the personal interest and the wise judgment of my deceased husband, who was always deeply interested in promoting opportunities for sincere and earnest work in the best fields of labor. I will therefore...
...openly as possible, that I believe the public announcement of the names of the men against whom charges are to be brought at Memorial Hall in connection with the disorder there today, constituted, as doing injustice to such men as may be cleared of the charges, a most serious error of judgment on my part. I wish here publicly to apologize to the men whose names were so published. HARRY B. KIRTLAND...
...School is much in need of better quarters for the Department of Chemistry, the lack of which will prove a serious hindrance to the development of the School...
...four years' course . . . Such being the case, it is highly desirable that each of the two courses should stand, as far as possible, on its own intrinsic merits, neither favored nor discriminated against by technical regulations. Each, in its own way, may be expected to have attractions for the serious-minded student, according to his temperament or his circumstances,--the three years course as one by which, with greater concentration on his studies, he may advance by a year his entrance on professional or special study or into active life; the four years course as affording time for more extended...