Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the greatest confidence and happy anticipation that Yale can look forward to the administration of Charles Seymour, for to the position as President of a great University a man must bring not only a brilliant and scholarly mind but also ample proof of his executive ability to deal with educational problems, Mr. Seymour possesses these first two qualifications in abundance, and his background of education at Yale and service to it fits him additionally for the task...
...ablest the U. S. has ever had, who 30 years before Cordell Hull and Franklin Roosevelt toured South America proclaiming: "We neither claim nor desire any rights or privileges or powers that we do not freely concede to any American Republic." But Elihu Root was a man of mind, not of emotions as politics requires. He quit in disgust after one term in the U. S. Senate (1909-15). Devoting himself to the role of Elder Statesman, he became a member of The Hague Court, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, won the Nobel Peace Prize, was called...
...Bear in mind, that in the future it will be recognized that we were the first to face and adapt government to the facts of modern life...
...trick is done. This little feat was suggested to me by a young Rhodes Scholar from Georgia; and though so many of the Rhodes men here are referred to in rather dampish terms, still this Southerner is so sensitive to cold weather to be of an original turn of mind. It is this same fellow who experimented with and electrical heating mattress and nearly set the college on fire...
...sirups, holding his bow at arm's length and his fingers taut, as he watches the fight of his shaft. Isfandiyar, pierced in the eye, is sinking forward, clutching at saddle and mane. But both faces are wholly impassive; no movement of the features was necessary to the Persian mind. None was thought worthy of the dignity of painting. The-flowery meadown is merely suggested; trees, rocks and clouds are formal conventions. But the cosmic aspect of the tragedy is announced by a great burst of organge fight in the darkness of the heavens...