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Though the athletic ship has been launched under such auspicious circumstances, it cannot hope to pursue an entirely satisfactory journey unless it has a strong captain at the helm. For a successful season a firm guiding policy is a requisite. Of course sports will go on indefinitely under their own momentum, but unless the attitude of the athletic authorities is definitely know both players and managers will be under a big handicap. The managers will not know how far to plan, and the players will feel the lack of strong support...
...knowledge of the Common Law. He traced the wresting of the first personal rights from the King of England, their incorporation in the Magna Charta, and the great influence of that "dusty parchment" upon the Anglo-Saxon race. He emphasized the necessity of building all new projects upon the firm foundation of past experience. Especially in the practice of law should attention be devoted to the gradual growth of personal liberty and the slow progress toward a rational society...
...year as instructor in mathematics and in the fall of 1914 he became a member of the Department of Mathematics at Harvard. As a teacher he was successful from the beginning. Clear, interesting, vivacious, he imparted to his hearers an understanding of the subjects treated, which served as a firm foundation for further study. In research he was exceedingly productive, and in the brief span that was accorded him for his scientific labors he has given to the world a notable series of memoirs in his special field of projective differential geometry...
...been during the war assistant secretary of the Massachusetts Food Administration. He is a trustee of the Massachusetts Training Schools, and of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and has for many years been engaged in the wool business as a member of the firm of Luce and Manning...
...Justice Charles Evens Hughes, General Peyton C. March, and a delegation of Rough Riders who served under Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. There was no music and no eulogy. The only departure from the ritual was the reciting by the rector of Colonel Roosevelt's favorite hymn: "How Firm a Foundation." During the day Army airplanes hovered over the grounds of the Roosevelt home...