The Michigan Alumnus, Volume 34

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Alumni Association of the University of Michigan., 1928 - Cooking
In volumes1-8: the final number consists of the Commencement annual.
 

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Page 168 - Such a dearth of public spirit, and such want of virtue, such stock-jobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantages of one kind or another, in this great change of military arrangement, I never saw before, and pray God's mercy that I may never be witness to again.
Page 227 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.
Page 255 - A loving Heart is the beginning of all Knowledge. This it is that opens the whole mind, quickens every faculty of the intellect to do its fit work, that of knowing; and therefrom, by sure consequence, of vividly uttering forth. Other secret for being "graphic" is there none, worth having: but this is an allsufficient one.
Page 556 - AND now, first and foremost, you can never afford to forget for one moment wsat is the object of our forest policy. That object is not to preserve the forests because they are beautifuL though that is good in itself, nor because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness, though that, too, is good in itself ; but the primary object of our forest policy, as of the land policy of the United States, is the making of prosperous homes. It is part of the traditional policy of home-making...
Page 509 - As these courses have been prepared in close cooperation with the faculty of the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University...
Page 168 - ... political sides of the Revolution, and to talk of the mutating systems of land-holding, shifting paths of commerce, the new arteries through which American thought and feeling flowed, and the modified relations of social classes to each other. They talked to their students of the march of social, economic and political principles instead of the march of armed men. It was not considered extra hazardous to distinguish between the noble heroes like Washington...
Page 510 - Buddha, who was born a prince, gave up his name, succession, and his heritage to attain security. But we do not have to give up the world; we have only to see a life insurance agent who can sell us security for the future, the most direct step to serenity of mind.
Page 280 - Kansas, before the same body, maintained that in a democracy the chief duty of the college is to train for useful and intelligent citizenship the largest possible number of young men and young women.
Page 167 - ... since the close of the Revolution ."historians have sought to learn what really happened. There were, of course, conflicting English and American interpretations of the events, different appraisements of credit and blame. Strangely enough the historians of the opposing nations have had little trouble in coming to approximate agreements, and they can today discuss all the vital questions in a most harmonious spirit. The great conflict has been between popular tradition and the results of scholarly...
Page 115 - An Advertisement of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company No ONE person owns as much as i% of the capital stock of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The company is owned by more than 420,000 people, with stockholders in every section of the United States. It, in turn, owns 91% of the common stock of the operating companies of the Bell System which give telephone service in every state in the Union, making a national service nationally owned.

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