Word: wide
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...construction of irrigation works. The United States Survey is limited to topographical work and opportunities for promotion are rare. A lucrative field presents itself to anyone who makes a specialty of cements which are manufactured in this country only at a great cost. Electrical engineering also presents a wide field. Whether a man intends to be a geologist or an engineer he should, during at least two of his summers, devote his time to actual practice. A man who has had no practical work in geology often finds difficulty in applying his knowledge to the problems which may confront...
...expectation has been amply justified by the event. For although but twenty men were present out of a membership of forty-nine in Minnesota, the meeting was the most cheerful, the most coraial, the most wide-awake, in the history of the club. The various copies of the CRIMSON, the Monthly, and the Advocate, so generously contributed to the club, were seized upon with avidity; extracts were read from the president's last report, and the various matters of moment in the policy and opportunities of the university were the subjects of lively discussion. I doubt if the opinions expressed...
...Next picture to yourselves the 60,000 students in colleges and universities-selected youth of keen intelligence, wide reading and high ambition. They are able to compare Washington with the greatest men of other times and countries, and to appreciate the uniquequality of his renown...
...find here the advantages they have anticipated, and many others in addition. A full list of the advantages mentioned cannot be given, but a few of those most emphatically dwelt upon by the men who wrote the committee will be of interest; they are: general reputation, superiority of instructors, wide range of courses of instructions, methods of instruction including the elective system; various facilities for work, as libraries, laboratories, museums, gymnasium, etc.; other aids, such as department clubs, lectures, conferences. vicinity of Boston, the cordial relations existing between instructors and students, various religious advantages, financial aid and many others...