Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...assist them to start an active and useful life from new beginnings not only by ordinary humanity, but by the confidence with which the men already crippled look to us for aid in this discouraging under-taking. Provision is already being made for the education and employment in the simpler mechanical processes of those not fitted for purely intellectual occupations. Manual training schools and manufacturing establishments, whose careful organization of labor on a large scale enables them permanently to employ crippled men, are to co-operate to do this...
...first real action--and once the action got started it seemed self-perpetuating. I have been an 'extra-man'--so my chance to see things has been excellent. 'Seeing' balls one all up, too. Though in a way also it makes everything--that is, just living--seem simpler and untroubled by all the old petty details. It is torture to see all this magnificent energy and sacrifice going for a cause which is itself only a means, and such a foolish, illogical means, than which, no one, as yet, sees a better--to an end which is vague...
...decorations were plain; one orchestra was used instead of two; and the supper was simpler than on former occasions. The net proceeds were given to three charitable and educational institutions connected with the university...
...about by the war. A large number of the functions ordinarily included in the program, because of the abandonment of senior week and its attendant events, have been omitted entirely. The result is a commencement in which the usual social activities have been practically eliminated in favor of the simpler formal exercises which are now planned...
...simple but efficient method which brings air into the stables at the horses heads and takes the foul air out through duets which empty high above the roof. The stalls are so arranged as to leave a feeding alley between them, making the handling of feed, water, etc., much simpler than any other arrangement and obviating the necessity of going into the stalls in order to feed the horses. The floor of the passageway will be of concrete but the stall floors will be constructed with cerosoted wood blocks. These have several advantages; the partial freeing of the stable...