Word: young
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...School needs a million, a couple of millions is wanted to increase equipment, material and staff for research in philosophy, political and pure science. Many salaries should be raised to keep distinguished professors at the university and deliver promising young men from the temptation of business offers far superior to their scanty pay. The library, the university press, various objects undertaken, or that ought to be $30,000,000. May Columbia get it, in large sums and in small, and on short notice! --New York Times...
...still debated. The ancients looked with scorn on the man who lay long abed, while Homer said, "It does not become a man of counsel to sleep the whole night." The University of Salerno in Roman days declared; "To sleep seven hours is enough for either a young man or an old one." In more modern times we have the famous dictum of Napoleon: four hours sleep for a man, five for a woman and six for a fool. Thomas Edison believes we shall have time enough to sleep when...
...front with no thought of future publication; and consequently conveying the freshest kind of pictures. The book carries with it, from Europe, boom of guns, the whirring of aeroplane motors and the signs of dying men-the whole set down in the vivid and picturesque words of young men who have seen great things...
Sections 13-24, inclusive, W. H. Brehaut in charge. Section heads as follows: Sect. 13, T. K. Selkirk; Sect. 14, C. H. Beebe; Sect. 15, L. A. Whitney; Sect. 16, C. B. Blaisdale; Sect. 17, W. Young; Sect. 18, E. Ambursky; Sect. 19, S. A. Freeman; Sect. 20, I. S. Hofer; Sect. 21, C. K. Lewis; Sect. 22, A. O. Fink; Sect. 23, A. C. B. Baumaun; Sect. 24, P. Bradley. Regular ushers as follows: Sect. 13, (A) L. Delugg and C. E. Arnold, (B) H. Andelman and G. C. Bettelstone, (C) W. Cantor, (D) H. W. Connolly; Sect...
...mistake Harvard University made is offering a prize of $200 for the best paper on plumbing was in making the amount too small. Any young man who knew enough about plumbing to write a paper on the subject could go out on a repair job and make more than that in half an hour.--Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. --Boston Globe...