Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Answering these in turn it must be said that the Diplomatic Service, as at present constituted, cuts rather a sorry figure. The service is tolerably permanent for first-rate men, but neither the promotion possibilities nor the salaries are particularly attractive. As to promotion, the practice has been to allow...
"It was the recognition of the principles of religion, of patriotism, of idealism which formed the character of those who founded both Virginia and Massachusetts to which we owe the best that we have, the best that we are, the best that we can be today. I only purpose to...
"A man with a family of children," continued President Lowell, "intends, very properly, to provide for them. His business is exacting; his affairs are prosperous, but he has not much leisure to devote to his boys. He comes to think mainly of the material possessions his children will enjoy, rather...
"Whatever a man's opinions on religious questions may be, if he considers seriously the highest end he can have in life, if he keeps that end steadily before his mind, he will be a man of elevated character. If the world means more than a senseless struggle for material...
The course on "Human Relations," to be given Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9, will be a study of the different types of human relationship in industry, in families, in disease, in misfortune, eac., and of types and varieties of personalities, with special interest in the question "Why do they...