Word: work
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scientific man, but also a business man. His place is not in the study and laboratory but out in the world. His duty is not alone to apply the forces of nature but to do so economically; not only to build, but also to decide whether a work should be constructed or not. It is all important that the engineer be a good judge of men, be of high character, and of good deportment. He must have a general education in addition to his specific training...
President Thwing of Western Reserve University writes on "President Eliot's Message," giving a cordial appreciation of the character and work of the President. President Hyde of Bowdoin has an excellent review of Mr. Eliot's recent volume on "University Administration." Mr. W.R. Thayer writes on "Comparisons: 1869-1909," showing in concrete form a few of the great changes under President Eliot's administration. His list of the buildings added is a sad one; by no stretch of the imagination can many of these be called beautiful. He demonstrates clearly that Harvard is the poor man's college...
...students of recent years owe a debt never to be forgotten. Dean Haskins is welcomed in a cordial editorial. Mr. R.H. Dana as laudator temporis acti shows that last year's success in rowing is due to a return to earlier ways. Professor Jackson gives a review of the work of the late Wolcott Gibbs; it is singularly illuminating to laymen in showing the importance of the activities of a scholar...
With the growth in importance of the minor sports, the injustice of the two-period rule has become more and more apparent. In October, 1904, the Athletic Committee, believing that the undergraduates were devoting too much time and thought to athletics to the detriment of their college work, decided that no man should represent the University in more than two of the three periods of athletics in any one year. They were unwilling, as was stated by Professor White two years ago, "to countenance the continuous devotion to athletics and the amount of absenteeism involved in membership on some University...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "Regeneration in Planarian Eye." Mr. E. A. Boyden. "Recent Work in Sex Inheritance and Inheritance of Color." Professor Castle and Mr. Little. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...