Word: vast
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...factor in the management of the department store is the personal element, which is essential to success. Care, good breeding, intelligence, and fidelity are indispensable, and there is a field for originality and intellectual growth. Though the retail business has reached a high level, there will always be a vast opportunity for men with first-class executive and financial ability to broaden and improve the business profession...
...King first declared his intention of discussing only the ethical attitude of Jesus, because his most important work was ethical and it is through this part of his teachings that his influence has become so vast...
...position in the last twenty years, and now no foreigner of note comes to America without visiting the University. One of the best conditions under which the President must work is the constantly recurring opportunity of moral advancement in judging conduct and sentiment with justice. There is also a vast opportunity for developing the gentler characteristics. In a community of the size of Harvard there is always something sad or piteous taking place, which the President can do much in relieving. The Presidency of Harvard is a happy and privileged position in which to work, and its incumbent cannot help...
...contact. In the capacity of officer of a bank in Lincoln, Nebraska, he spent $1,100,000 of his private wealth to prevent its failure, solely because he felt the bank should be saved for the sake of the country. This case of an individual's advancing so vast a sum for the sake of the community is entirely without parallel...
Major Higginson has devoted his life to the interests of Boston and to Harvard. The first great gift that he gave to the University was a vast tract of land, which he wished to be named Soldiers Field in honor of those who had died for the Union during the Civil War. It was to be a place where all Harvard men could enjoy outdoor sports. In the autumn of 1899 he gave $150,000 to build a clubhouse which should "bear no name forever except that of our University." Plans for the building were drawn up by McKim, Mead...