Word: branches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years in acquiring a thorough college training naturally expects that what he has gained there ought to enable him to start in on a higher round of the ladder, and sets his hopes on entering some other profession; or, perhaps, if he has better chances of success, into some branch of business. The only training for journalism college men receive is the work they do on the college papers, which is, on a small scale, practically all very well, but, like everything else, the theoretical part of newspaper work ought to be coupled with it. At Yale they have already...
...bridges. In a few words, President Eliot introduced the speaker, but omitted, as the latter facetiously remarked, to mention the fact that he was a graduate of Harvard. Mr. Clarke began by stating the importance of modern bridge-building and the rapid progress which has been made in the branch within the last fifteen years. One of the greatest undertakings of the age is the spanning of the Hudson at Poughkeepsie, by a massive bridge, 3094 feet, and with the approaches, one and one third miles in length. The object of this great work is to aid in the cheaper...
...will be trained by that work only in those parts which are actively used in the business or profession which he has taken up. If he begins active life ill provided with positive knowledge of facts he is likely to learn only those facts which are useful in his branch of active life. In this way he becomes one-sided and narrow-minded; efficient, perhaps, and useful, but not liberally educated, and probably less useful and efficient than if he were so. For it is the province of a liberal education to widen the mind, to make it turn more...
...wheel. Every man who has the welfare of the college at heart should go to the gymnasium and see if he is not good for something. Let him not be discouraged; nothing is accomplished without practice. If every man did his duty, and trained faithfully for that branch of athletics for which he is fitted, we should have no reason to fear defeat from any opponent...
...University that trained him. He always retained a keen interest in the University, and especially in the departments that touched philosophical and social subjects. The gift in his memory of the money for the United States History Library at once fills an urgent need in an important branch of study, and forms an appropriate memorial to one of the ablest and most loyal of the younger graduates...