Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ides of February approach. They are ill only for the ill-prepared. The Ides of February, remember...
Generosity is always more pleasant when accompanied by an entertainment. The Bazaar furnishes that in abundance. In this country the word "bazaar" not infrequently conjures up remembrances of parish houses and Ladies Aid Societies. But the festivals in the Arabian nights and the great Eastern bazaars will more nearly approach the exhibition in Mechanics Building tonight. Articles of every description will be on sale--and there will always be a fair exchange for your money. The elaborate exhibition of war relics and the reproduction of a British trench, arranged by Captain Thwaites, to say nothing of the trench-climbing "tank...
...putting the University in sixth place the Times makes the following comment; "Harvard's eleven failed to approach the standard shown by Crimson elevens in recent years. With the same Haughton system, plenty of promising material, and every indication of another high-class eleven, the Crimson failed against Tufts, Brown and Yale, and just squeezed through with a victory over Princeton. The Harvard line was the weak point in the structure. On other Harvard teams, the Haughton tactics of delayed passes and hidden ball plays got results because of a strong line...
...conservative class. This is obviously ridiculous. The Status of a certain group of students can neither be caused be nor cause the intellectual status of the University. Harvard maintains ideals of free speech, for example far ahead of most universities. Her funds for fellowships, scholarships and loans approach one hundred thousand dollar a year. Many of her professors are extremely redical, notably in history, economics, psychology and philosophy. Her graduates include the most progressive leader in every walk of life. And because a larger percentage of her students are by heredity opposed to radicalism than is the case in most...
Professor Kuno Francke's "Personality in German Literature Before Luther" contains six lectures delivered in the winter of 1915 at the Lowell Institute and subsequently at Cornell University and the University of California. "An Approach to Business Problems," by A. W. Shaw, lecturer on Business Policy in the Business School, deals with the problems in production, distribution and administration which confront the business manager...