Word: working
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That these boys can win a few ball games and make others close is a tribute to their willingness to work and to the ability of their coach, Wes Fesler. He is teaching them sound basketball from the ground...
...expense of the public--or that section of the public unfortunate enough to need the services of his device. It was felt that members of a university corporation, like members of any other type of corporation, should not derive personal gain from inventions made while doing paid research work. Harvard has wisely undertaken to curb faculty patents; but to say that it will take out patents only "for dedication to the public" is not so wise nor so charitable a move as at first it may appear...
...best," he said, "to go straight to bed when a cold is coming on. In so doing a student does not, in the long run, get so far behind in his work as he does when he fights the cold and attempts to keep up on his activities...
More than two hundred objects of sculpture, pottery, textiles, jade, and gold-work are included, giving a view of the high artistry achieved by the people of Mexico. Central America, and Peru, during the period that Christian civilization developed in Europe...
...natural and social sciences for the present system of concentration and distribution is put into effect, the net result, in my opinion, will be a decisive step backward. It implies a failure on the part of our secondary schools to provide a solid and wide basis for college work or for life. This failure almost certainly exists; yet the trend in the colleges toward "orientation" courses for the Freshman and Sophomore years tends to preserve and aggravate the insufficiency of the schools rather than to remedy it. If, instead of taking over the task of the high schools, the colleges...