Word: moves
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...measured by his power to do this rather than by his power to please. There are two things essential to persuasion: the speaker must know what he is talking about, and he must mean what he says. Eloquence is the speech from heart to heart; a man must be moved in order to move others. If a man knows his subject and is sincere, he cannot fall to be an effective speaker. Clearness, which is a great aid to forceful speaking, aims at stating a truth so plainly that it cannot fail to be understood. If a man disputes...
...best, it can only result in a bowing acquaintance with a score or so of men who you had no idea were members of your class. Moreover, a class has become definitely sifted into groups by Senior year. A man's friends are made and he will inevitably move more or less completely in his own particular circle. The fact that one meets a man in the Yard wearing a class button will rarely serve to do more than to tag him as a member of the Senior class. Incidentally, the caps and gowns accomplish this purpose...
...appointment of the Co-operative Society as official purchasing agent for the University is worthy of comment. The saving in cost and convenience which this new move should effect is shown by the fact that during the year 1909-10 the different officers and departments of the University used more than eighteen thousand dollars' worth of stationery, and purchased this from no fewer than sixty-seven different stores in Boston and Cambridge...
More important, however, is the attitude which those who move into the Yard next year will take toward life in Senior dormitories. If the class of 1912 decides to go into the Yard because it believes in widening acquaintances and deepening friendships, no doubt it will in its day reap the benefits which the present Senior class already enjoys...
...same route. All vehicles coming from the sistion shall go through Meadow street to George, to Temple, to Elm, to Norton, to Chapel, or through State street by the same route. Going to the station, the route is down State and through Union avenue. Carriages and automobiles shall move only in a northerly direction on College street between Crown and Elm streets...