Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides Professor Cushing, Professor C. L. Hana, Cornell, and W. S. Thayer, Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins, will receive the distinction. The occasion is the visit of the British Medical Association to Edinburgh. All other recipients are Englishmen, with the exception of one eminent representative each of France, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland...
...active business, they may be referred to still another pertinent argument. At the dedication of the school's great flew buildings on Saturday, Professor Edwin F. Gay, the institution's first dean, told the story of a prosperous business man, an admirer of West Point methods, who came to visit the school in its early days. This visitor, feeling moved to challenge the value of the new enterprise then beginning at Harvard, asked what, apart from a certain amount of technical knowledge, were the qualities required for success in business...
...speaking of the first, and in fact the continuing task of such a School--to find what essentials should and could be taught, and then learning how they could be taught, Professor Gay told of the skeptical business man, an admirer of West Point methods, who came to visit the School in its early days. The visitor asked what, apart from a certain amount of technical knowledge, were the qualities required for success in business. The answer was: "Judgment, courage, and that combining and balancing quality which may be called resourcefulness of 'gumption'." When he said triumphantly...
...Author Hamsun begins his examination of a mad, melancholy Dane, Johan Nagel, and the heap of odd things he did. He fell in love with Dagny Kielland, who was engaged to marry a naval officer. He made friends with pauperish Minutten. He mystified the townspeople by never explaining his visit...
...last glimpse, ten years later, with Mrs. Ramsay and two of her children dead, the others undertake a last visit to the lighthouse. Like the music of a fugue, this movement touches the themes of the first, catches them in new cadences and changed echoes. The group of people for whom Mrs. Ramsay had been the axis, whirl and drift like the specks of a nebula. In a curious key, full of sharps, Author Woolf produces the effect of an enormous change in life where little change is apparent...