Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...higher technical education in and near Boston would be better served by an alliance of Harvard University with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or by the separate maintenance of the two institutions, the following extract from Mr. Gordon McKay's will is of interest as showing the liberal and thorough-going provision for technical education which the Harvard Corporation will be obliged to make, enjoying for that purpose an income possibly equal to one third of the present income from the entire invested funds of Harvard University...
...growth of museums and laboratories and the introduction of laboratory and field work in scientific instruction; the requirements for admission to College raised and broadened; the requirements for admission to the Scientific School gradually raised to the level of the College requirements; the development of four-year programs affording thorough professional training in the several branches of applied science, including architecture and landscape architecture; the Graduate School established for the administration of the higher degrees in arts and sciences, and recognition given to the importance of the fostering of higher studies as the essential function of a university...
...joint gymnastic exhibition with Columbia last night in the Gymnasium was witnessed by an unusually large crowd. The exhibition as a whole was a thorough success and the individual performers showed marked excellence. Both teams showed, as the result of careful and consistent training, creditable form and clever execution...
...Living Room of the Union a short address on "Studying Men." He spoke informally, giving reflections from his own observation and experience in life. College men, he said, are of necessity compelled to give most of their attention to subjects, and consequently take the attitude that a thorough knowledge of subjects will make them successful in later life, that a knowledge of engineering or of the law or of literature will make them good engineers or lawyers or journalists. But such a view is wrong, for a knowledge of men is an essential to success as a knowledge of subjects...
...executive and advisory committees of the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association of America met early Saturday afternoon at the Touraine Hotel and were conducted to Soldiers Field for a thorough inspection of the Stadium. At 6.30 o'clock, dinner was served for them in the Committee Room of the Union, after which the delegates returned to the Touraine, where the business meeting was held...