Word: foregoing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...were paid to President Eliot by Harvard clubs on his seventieth birthday, and the raising a few years ago of a $3,000,000 endowment fund for increasing the salaries of teachers. Finally Mr. Chapman issues a call for Harvard to return to the paths of academic rectitude; to forego the alleged endeavor at mere physical size and to become again the biggest influence in the college life of the country. This change Mr. Chapman would accomplish by replacing with "scholars" the "business men" of the Corporation...
...committee in charge has provided a generous supply of paraphernalia, and the price will no more than cover expenses. To make the parade a success it is absolutely essential that men should forego other engagements for Wednesday evening to march with their classes to the Stadium...
...organization, would take it upon themselves to make a furniture collection the last of June and either manage its distribution in the fall or turn it over to the University loan collection, we feel sure that many men would prefer to give their furniture to such a committee and forego the absurdly low prices which the professional dealers offer. Without attempting to work out the details of the plan, we do think that it is a practical suggestion, and one which if carried out would materially aid the poorer students in getting through the financial strain of freshman year...
...before the fullest attainment of his profession there lie ahead of the mining engineer many preliminary stages in which faithfulness must be shown. He must be greedy of experience rather than of salary or promotion; above all, he must make up his mind to forego fame, which, in this profession, is often a mere flux of phenomena. He must learn to know himself and his own capacities; and, whatever beside, he must show loyalty in his constant willingness to perform duties for which others will be credited. Let him remember that team-work is necessary for the achievement of success...
...closing the speaker said: "We remind you that we make no attack upon the principle of labor organization, we grant its possibility for good, but we say that to attain this good, unions must not assume to manage the employers' business; they must forego coercion, and in building themselves up, must not forget that those who differ with them have rights guaranteed them under our free government. But the fact that this is a nation bent on the betterment of the laboring class, that trade-unionism has been agitated and reagitated, and yet has failed to receive the support...