Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lecture Hall tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock, taking as his subject, "Aviation and the War." Professor Sabine was away all last year on leave of absence and he spend the entire time abroad doing scientific work connected with the war, in this way gaining an unusual firsthand knowledge of conditions in the warring countries, especially in England, France and Italy...
...suggestion of a stock exchange in the Yard is a pardonable whimsicality; but the premises upon which the editorial builds show a lamentable ignorance. The big drawing card of the Business School's course is the practical nature of the work. Men are required to make firsthand researches into the management of all sorts of enterprises. In the case of the retail shoe and grocery businesses they have made over systems; and their suggestions have been widely adopted by practical men. Other businesses now suggest of their own accord that the Business School investigate their methods for their improvement. Actual...