Word: told
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Dean Hurlbut; on the President and Education, by Professor Hanual a hearty voice from the South comes from President Craighead of Tulane; a foreigner's view is given by Visiting Professor Kuehnemann; the President as an Ethical Teacher is described by Dean Hodges; and the President's courage is told by Editor Thayer of the Graduates' Magazine. These articles contain several portraits; as a Freshman in 1849; a Senior in 1853; the young President in 1873; and finally in his president prime of life. Two other articles are: "The Cattle Route to Europe" by R. A. Martin...
...that is as old as the Greeks, that of the ambitious youth who has to choose between true happiness and wealth and power. The youth chooses the latter and finds how little profit there is in winning the whole world and losing his own soul. The story is well told. In "Song," C.E.H. prays to taste of pain, of hate, and sin, that he may know what lies beyond. In "Spring Snows," W.C.G. has a pretty conceit; "Should our spring become a winter's day again, can we not build a dream-spring lasting through the years...
...choleric gentleman, in the costume described, lost five pounds by betting that another wayfarer at the inn could not cure the servant girl's earache. The pain, proved to be caused by an ant which was brought out by means of a ladle of water. The story is well told. "Un Roi de France" and "The Hoss-Thief" are tales of murder and sudden death. In the first, one does not fully sympathize with Pierre in his heroic calm while the flames of the burning building licked his feet. But "then mercifully, he fainted," which, of course, makes...
...Eliot and President Taft in the Blue Room of the White House yesterday, no official decision has been made by President Eliot either in acceptance or refusal of the ambassadorship to the Court of St. James. It is ascertained, however, from sources close to President Taft that President Eliot told Mr. Taft at the time the offer was made that he was disposed to refuse it, inasmuch as he was retiring from the Presidency of Harvard in order to relieve himself of responsible duties. He stated, moreover, that, having been as educator all his life, the assumption...
...meeting of the candidates for next year's football team, Coach P. D. Haughton '99 and Captain H. Fish, Jr., '10 told the men what would be expected of them during spring practice. The importance of reporting regularly during the spring, in order to become acquainted with the coaching system, and that the coaches may have an opportunity to see the material, was emphasized...