Word: mind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Answering your letter of Oct. 7, I am inclosing conditional subscription to the new publication, FORTUNE, with this qualification, however, that owing to extreme pressure of business on the Court, I may not be able to make up my mind within a month after the first issue, whether I will continue to be a subscriber or not. Two months will be sufficient. Please advise...
...surprise was his model's success to Mr. Armstrong, swarthy engineer, who since he left the Navy has been consulting engineer for the E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. at Wilmington. For 16 years he has been experimenting and designing such a sea base having in mind ocean way stations for ships and, more lately for transoceanic aircraft. He "sold" his idea to the eminently practical duPont and General Motors financiers. They have provided him one and three quarters million dollars to build his first seadrome. Construction has already started on it. It will be called the Langley after...
...decision seems to be based on an underestimation of the importance the student mind places in athletics and an over estimation of the difficulty of the Exeter entrance requirements which are supposed to provide the necessary check on athletes. If such be the case, it may be expected that the new course will prove its faults in actual operation and that the Exeter authorities will come to a realization that some relation between studies and athletics must be maintained if an undue emphasis is not to be placed on the latter...
Still another angle to the present case is the accusation which instantly comes to the mind on hearing of a school's taking a new course in the very middle of the football season; namely that of attempting to strengthen an apparently weak eleven for the final and crucial tests of its fall campaign. The knowledge that such an accusation would inevitably bring into the public eye questions of good sportsmanship and fair play should alone have been enough to deter those in authority from announcing their decision at such an injudicious moment, however much the general effect...
Added to both these conditions, is the lesson taught by the past history of Harvard-Dartmouth relations. One of my earliest recollections is of the great Joe Forecast, on the eve of a H-D game, with every other score correctly computed in that fine mind of his, resorting to pulling numbers out of a hat to determine the Dartmouth score! Though I was only a CRIMSON candidate then, it is a lesson which I have never forgotten...