Word: useful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will speak in the order named: E. J. Arnstine '13, E. L. Viets '11, A. A. Berle, Jr., '13, T. M. Gregory '10, C. S. Collier '11, H. B. Ehrmann '11, A. D. Brigham '12, G. E. Judd '11. Each man will speak for ten minutes and may be use notes, but is not to read his speech...
...north side of the street. It may safely be claimed that the building itself must have been either the original "Harvard College," built in 1638, or else Edward Goffe's house, which stood on the next lot, and before 1654 had been acquired by the College for use as a dormitory. It was called "Goffe's Colledge" and is described in the early College records as containing "five chambers, 18 studies, a kitchen, cellar, and 3 garrets." The position of the foundation wall to the west of Wadsworth House makes the identification of the building with the Goffe house...
...materials and apparatus for doing that work are, for the most part, applications of three sciences: chemistry, physics, and biology, which have each made rapid progress since the middle of the nineteenth century. To the progress of applied chemistry, dentistry owes a large number of valuable new materials. Teeth used to be filled with gold, or other pure metal, chiefly in the form of foil, but now gold and other pure metals are used in many different forms. Alloys, or mixtures of metals not easily oxidized, are also available. Amalgams have come into use, and above all, very serviceable cements...
...fact is established that whenever men as individuals are free to work, to earn, and to save and use their earnings as they deem fit, the capable everywhere tend to rise to prosperity. Skillful men are always in demand at good wages. Thus as the moral side is also developed by individualism and competition, the strongest characters are secured...
...use of notes will be permitted but men must not read their speeches. Not only logic and clear presentation of the subject, but general knowledge, manner of delivery, and literary style of the competitor, will be considered in the judging of the speeches. The judges will be A. H. Elder '08, A. N. Holcombe '07, P. B. Kennedy '09. All members of the University, who have not handed in their names, but wish to compete, can enter at the trials...