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Word: discreetly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...students may suggest new ways of serving the poor or unfortunate, in their own homes or in institutions, in connection with existing agencies. Always, however, the student is sent where, as he gives himself, he will receive the guidance and direction of experts, and profit by association with discreet and experienced people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Volunteer Work. | 10/15/1895 | See Source »

...freely understand either side of the dispute. These were the organizations to be ignored. The claim of the affirmative speakers that such organizations were necessary before there could be any arbitration did not rest on facts. Inquiry into the character of the associations proved that they lack conservatism and discreet leadership, as seen in the case of the Chicago strikes under the guidance of Debs. The sympathetic strikes that were ordered by such leaders necessitated breach of trusts. Laborers could not appreciate on how small a margin most business is conducted. In their opposition to the monopoly of capital they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD WINS. | 1/19/1895 | See Source »

...well realize first as last that one of his first precautions should be a clean record at the office. It his position there is precarious and he has really the university's interest at heart, as well his own, he can do no better than to be reasonably discreet in his attendance at recitations and lectures and in doing his work. The College athlete has more than his own interests to consider in this matter; if he is one varsity team he owes it positively to the University, for whose honor he is working. that his studies should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/29/1893 | See Source »

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