Colorado School of Mines Magazine, Volume 5

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Colorado School of Mines Alumni Association, 1915
 

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Page 74 - Two opposing laws seem to me now in contest. The one a law of blood and death, opening out each day new modes of destruction, forces nations to be always ready for the battle. The other, a law of peace, work and health, whose only aim is to deliver man from the calamities which beset him.
Page 100 - Boston, who shall have been such for at least three years prior to the date of their appointment, one for the term of five years, one for four years, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and thereafter as the terms of office expire in each year one member for a term of five years.
Page 66 - Disturbin' the peace, yer honor," said the policeman. "They were givin' their college yells in the street an' makin' trouble generally." "What is your name?" the judge asked one of the prisoners. "Ro-ro-robert Ro-ro-rollins," stuttered the youth. "I asked for your name, sir, not the evidence." Maud Muller, on a summer night, Turned down the only parlor light. The judge, beside her, whispered things Of wedding bells and diamond rings. He spoke his love in burning phrase, And acted foolish forty ways....
Page 39 - I was going to recommend to you. I will write the particulars of your case to a very clever man there, in whose hands you will be well taken care of." The lady, furnished with the letter, sets off, and on arriving at Newbury, feeling as usual, very nervous, she said to her confidant, " Long as Sir Walter has attended me, he has never explained to me what ails me. I have a great mind to open his letter and see what he has stated of my case to the Bath physician.
Page 74 - ... battle ; the other, a law of peace, work, and health, whose only aim is to deliver man from the calamities which beset him. "The one seeks violent conquests ; the other, the relief of mankind. The one places a single life above all victories ; the other sacrifices hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual. "The law of which we are are instruments strives even through carnage to cure the wounds due to the law of war.
Page 75 - Which of these two laws will prevail, God only knows. But of this we may be sure: that science, in obeying the law of humanity, will always labor to enlarge the frontiers of life.
Page 74 - ... death, ever imagining new means of destruction and forcing nations to be constantly ready for the battlefield, the other a law of peace, work and health, ever evolving new means of delivering man from the scourges which beset him. The one seeks violent conquests, the other the relief of humanity. The latter places one human life above any victory; while the former would sacrifice hundreds and thousands of lives to the ambition of one.
Page 39 - Why, dear, you have electricity in your hair," explained the mother. "Isn't that funny?" commented the little one. "I have electricity in my hair, and grandmother has gas in her stomach."— Ladies
Page 44 - Probably one of the best illustrations of America's opportunity to develop new industries is afforded by tin. The known American deposits are very small and production from them will probably not be much affected by the present higher prices. The benefit which the United States may obtain from the present situation is stated by George Otis Smith, director of the United States Geological Survey, in a recent inventory of the mineral reserves of the United States, as lying in the establishment of a...
Page 14 - Sir, your daughter has promised to become my wife." "Well, don't come to me for sympathy; you might know something would happen to you, hanging around here five nights a week.

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