Word: work
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...time when the elective pamphlet appears, it seems desirable to call the attention of students, particularly of Freshmen, to the fact that the most satisfactory results of College study are often secured by men who plan their work with a view to candidacy for a degree with distinction. (See Catalogue, pp. 508-518). For this gives them a chance to fulfill the popular definition of a liberal education as one which results in knowing a little of everything and all about something. The best way of deciding what kind of distinction to try for has been found...
...conference on "The Opportunities and the Work of the Ministry," under the auspices of the Harvard Divinity School, the Andover Theological Seminary and the Phillips Brooks House Association, will be held in Phillips Brooks House today, beginning at 2.30 o'clock. Professor J. W. Platner, of Andover, will preside, and the speakers and their subjects will be as follows: Professor E. C. Moore, "The Minister's Relation to the Christian Influence throughout the World"; Professor E. S. Drowne, "The Intellectual Opportunity of the Minister"; Rev. O. P. Gifford, D.D., "The Minister's Vision and Task"; Dean W. W. Fenn...
...committee of three will soon be nominated to make the nominations for charter membership and next fall the Council will start on the first year of what we trust will be an historic career. The founders of the new organization have great hopes for its success, but their real work will lie with next year's members, who by hard work and devotion to the spirit of the enterprise can finally establish its prestige. The CRIMSON believes that the Student Council has almost unlimited possibilities, it properly conduced. It will give definite organization to that vague term hitherto known...
...impossible to surmise. But there is no doubt about the fact that, as a reading play, it holds the attention with a firm grip, that it is full of action, humor, and skillfully maintained suspense, and that, as we have come to expect in Mr. MacKaye's work, the lines contain, especially towards the close, much poetical thought and fine imaginative expression. Finally, the drama is marked by a quite extraordinary intensity,-an intensity which not only permeates and broadens the symbolism, but which gives to the flashes of wit an illuminating power raising even the lighter parts...
...opening article is a sharp attack on the practice of working one's way through college; an ordinary "working-student," forced to earn money, is likely, it is said, to sacrifice health, intellectual ideals and social enjoyment; men with uncommon endowments may succeed, the majority must fall. Here undoubtedly is a difficulty; but the writer would have done well to bring out the other side more distinctly-that not a few men work their way without losing the best fruits of college life, and that for some men the necessity of supporting themselves is a wholesome discipline. And what counsel...