Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Will you allow me to call the attention of students to the opportunity, both for practice in teaching and in social service, provided by the Prospect Union? This organization has drawn together for many years our students and the wage-earners of Cambridge in a fellowship equally profitable to teachers and scholars; and the history of the Union is now long enough to demonstrate the value of its work. Among those who have there had their first training in teaching have been Professors Warren, Merriman, Coolidge, and Whittemore of this University; Professor Lovett of Chicago, Professor Peirce of Leland Stanford...
...great amount of work falling to professor Sabine's lot, we cannot, but regret his loss for purely selfish reasons. But its recent action the Corporation made possible the retirement of the Deans from the Committee, but we entertained a sneaking hope and belief that their efficiency, and the prospect of less work in the future, would secure their reappointment. Now at least one place on the Committee must be filled by a new Faculty member, who will be just as ignorant of what is necessary as were the Deans when their athletic management was forced upon them. We sincerely...
...form. But you cannot expect this to happen by quick action; it takes a long time for it to develop and it can only be done by gradually working the one out of the other. The main interest that draws men to these sports in the winter is the prospect of the intercollegiate games. The sports are new and they require stimulus. Hence they will cut short the only interest of the undergraduate life at that dull time of the year, and all the men who go out for hockey and basketball, most of whom do not partake...
...parent over the child, in the authority of the husband over his wife, in the power of the employer over the employee. It is but a logical, natural, and desirable growth. What is now desired to complete the advance is an increase in spiritual authority, for which the prospect is bright...
...Fernandez has a pleasing melody. But most notable is J. H. Wheelock's "Dawn in the City," which, in spite of serious defects, is well worth reading. Its merit lies in the vividness of its pictures, and the success the writer achieves in conveying the feeling inspired by a prospect of city streets in the gray light of morning. In this it recalls some of Mr. Henley's London poems. But its effectiveness is weakened by a curious uncertainty in the handling of the verse. The metre is prevailingly iambic, but the license of substitution of trochaic and other measures...