Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...literature is for him a serious matter, on a par with his technical work. General subjects are, therefore, likely to be neglected or treated lightly when studied in a school primarily professional. When, on the other hand, professional courses are introduced into a college curriculum, they are apt to suffer, not, indeed, as compared with the general subjects, but as compared with what can be accomplished in a school wholly devoted to preparation for a career. It is difficult in a college, with its alluring extra-curriculum activities, to create the strong professional atmosphere that promotes the best technical training...
...present mood. The lines, except the second, are musical; Mr. Clark has secured his effect with rare economy of effort. The two sonnets by Mr. Norris, "An Old Story," and "Winter Sunrise," dealing with more clearly defined subjects, show more direct treatment. In form, they are slightly irregular, and suffer from a jerkiness due to the large proportion of end-stopped lines. But the description is good; and Mr. Norris is particularly felicitous in his closing lines...
...quite conceivable that we may see the athletic excesses from which American colleges and universities still suffer find an effective corrective in military drill, with results highly beneficial to the individual and immensely serviceable and helpful in the Republic. Such students, if our Government only has the with to utilize existing institutions and develop well-established practices, could be prepared before graduation to qualify as military officers competent to train in time of war our volunteer armies, which in a last resort form the military bulwark of the Republic...
...chemistry department of Cornell University will suffer the loss of a large shipment of apparatus which has been held up in Hamburg, Germany, on account of the war. In the spring a large number of supplies were ordered from different factories all through Germany and would have reached here about the first of September had not the war broken out. The department may possibly be handicapped in its work because of this, but, however, will suffer no shortage of chemicals...
...honor to keep himself in good condition, for a sick man requires two additional men, one to look after him, and one to fill his place. He had much better be at home. It is often difficult to provide pure water and food, and the men, compelled to suffer heat and cold, and hard service, are constantly subject to sickness and exhaustion on this account...