Word: bestowed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...election of Senior officers is one of the most important events in the history of a class. It is important not only because it is the final undergraduate honor that a class can bestow, but because the voters are aware that the officers they now choose will be permanent, and will be the leaders at all the class reunions. They realize that the world will judge the class of 1920 largely by the men it selects for the important offices; that their choice is taken to represent the best which the class can produce...
...Week. The Library War Council appointed by the Secretary of War intends to erect a comfortable library and fill it with good books at each of the thirty-two cantonments and the numerous training camps. This short explanation of the Council's aim is enough in itself. We need bestow no elaborate praise on so worthy a motive for raising money, since he who wrote "We may live without books" has been proved remarkably presumptuous long since. Man must read and our army is composed of men, not animals...
...considered one of the most even interpretations of character ever presented. He gave two performances of "Hamlet" here 14 years ago and because of his pleasant experiences at that time and the extraordinarily fitting conditions under which the performance was given, he has expressed great enthusiasm in agreeing to bestow upon the University the greatest honor at his command, that of acting "Hamlet" in Cambridge for the last time on any American stage...
...becoming prominent in primary and secondary education. Applied to college men, of course, it would be in the nature of giving information rather than advice. In order to be successful every man must undoubtedly, choose his vocation with a passionate love for the work; but he must also bestow that love upon a calling for which he is fitted. Besides aiding men in choosing their life-occupation such guidance would give purpose to many undergraduate programs...