Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Minister of Public Instruction congratulated the University on the great work of mutual enlightenment of two peoples regarding each other, which, he said, "is today bearing admirable fruit." He referred to the sacrifices already made by Harvard men in the service of France and expressed a desire to see more American students at French universities. He said that his government would do all it could toward the foundation of an "American Students' House" in Paris to encourage and help Americans coming to France to study...
...closing of the school at the laboratory, it is planned to give instruction for four hours a day in "taking the sun" by means of the sextant and an artificial horizon. After this training the students will be placed aboard boats, probably to be furnished by the United Fruit Company, for actual service in determining latitude and longitude...
...feel that 13 or 14 of the 16 possible weeks should be spent on farms. Just when the men can get their furloughs is still in doubt. Most of them will want to be free in September, but that is the most important month of the fruit season and many of them will be needed then. At any rate it will be impossible for more than a fixed percentage of the men enrolled to be absent at a given time. Men leaving for the officers' training camps which will open in August will, of course, be excused when the time...
...which demands thoughtful deliberation rather than injudicious and hasty action." What hasty action have we taken? For two years we have been in a diplomatic controversy with Germany. We have stated our position in-numerable times, and, after two years in deliberation and judicious action have borne no fruit, are we hasty and hot-headed when we declare that we shall talk no more? We have done our deliberating; we have studiously tried to avoid war; and yet, after all that has passed we are told that we are in a danger of being injudicious and hasty! Nor is there...
...strengthened and this the coaches proceeded to do. The first test of the remade team came in the game with North Carolina. The University scored three touchdowns and held the Southerners scoreless, winning 21 to 0. The game showed that the hard work of the weeks before had borne fruit, and with Coach Haughton able to be at practice regularly from that time on, the team began to find itself. Massachusetts Agriculture College was overwhelmed, 47 to 0, on October 21, and this victory seemed to instill confidence in the team. M. A. C. has undoubtedly the weakest team...