Word: prosperity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...influence in the secondary schools; there is no more effective manner of doing this than through the co-operation of alumni engaged in the work of instructing in those schools. On behalf of the University we extend a cordial greeting to the Association--may they and their work prosper...
College magazines have, probably even among magazines, the most hectically varied careers known to man. They prosper, they fail, they revive; are alternately feeble, invisible and brilliant, according to the qualities of each rapidly succeeding generation. Of late, the Advocate has been passing through a period of eclipse,--if not total, at any rate partial. Before that, it was in the hands of poets and became a sort of serial anthology. With much work that was of course mediocre, it also printed a good deal of very exceptional verse by such poets as S. Foster Damon, Robert Hillyer, William Norris...
...duty. The country of our choice sends out the stern demand for that unswerving loyalty to the flat--a loyalty which it must expect of every one of its citizens. And there can be only one answer. We must rally to the flat under which we live and prosper. Our hearts are bleeding at the thoughts of fratricide, but they must bleed. We will shame those that would cast the odium of disloyalty on us. In all our history no traitor has been found, not will be found, among citizens of German origin. G. PRIESTER...
...wireless telegraphy. Probably thousands of Yale men have not heard of Willard Gibbs, one of the most creative minds in nineteenth century science, whose work at New Haven was possible largely because he was a man of means and of good family. Perhaps the general cause of science might prosper more in this country if there were greater co-operation and less provincial isolation among the various groups of specialists. Thus the great meeting in New York this week is marked by the absence of all the social science associations, which meet in Columbus, Ohio. The separation between the social...
...idea that the Union might prosper under a somewhat different form of management was suggested. The plan spoken of was a board of seven members: two from the Faculty and five undergraduates. In this way interest in the Union could be aroused among members, thus making the Union more like the Oxford Union, which is the university's social centre and acknowledged as such by the undergraduates and Faculty alike...