Word: trust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first brought up the plans were so indefinite that the attitude of the Council might be laid to a too hasty examination of the methods, aims, and scope of the conference. A failure to reconsider the invitation, however, would more than justify the epithet of indifference generally and, we trust, erroneously applied to Harvard,--it would approach very near to rudeness...
...chain ladders as antiquated as they are inefficient, and Harvard has its vines and roof-balcony; but the only effective work which these appurtenances can accomplish is to cause the imprisoned undergraduate to spend valuable lecture hours in wondering whether it would be better in case of fire, to trust to the firemen or slide down a rain pipe...
While in college, Mr. Lamont was President of the CRIMSON and took a prominent part in many other undergraduate activities. Upon graduation he became a reporter on the New York Tribune and later secretary and treasurer of the Bankers' Trust Company. Mr. Lamont has been a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company since 1911 and is now director of many large companies and corporations. He is also owner of the New York Evening Post and a trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy and Smith College, while lately he has been joint chairman of the Harvard Endowment Fund...
During his undergraduate years, Mr. Lamont was President of the CRIMSON and prominent in many other college activities. After graduation he became a reporter on the New York Tribune and later secretary and treasurer of the Bankers' Trust Company. Some time after this step he became Vice-President of the First National Bank of New York and he has been a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company since...
...might still have been groping vaguely in the darkness. But they bore the torch unflinchingly, and passed it on glowing yet brighter than before. The torch now is ours, and it is we who must lift it high--not with strife, and bickering, and gloomy forebodings, but with calm trust and steadfast purpose. This is our heritage--this is our duty on the stage of life; that courage, truth, and light shall dwell forever in the land of the Pilgrims...