Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Analysis of figures of any kind is not always easy; often it is wholly unsatisfactory. The returns from the colleges, however, would seem to indicate certain definite developments. Primarily it is the large universities and technical schools which have benefited most by this new-found popularity of higher education. Take, for instance, the enrolment statistics of 11 of the representative big city or state universities -- Boston University, Columbia, Cornell, New York University, Northwestern, Syracuse, and the universities of California, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Their total registration today is 90,947, compared with...
Many of us are inclined to forget our social responsibility. There was a convention in the Middle Ages that the privileged class--the nobility--owed a certain debt to the poor. The titled nobility, we hope, has dropped out of our civilization; but there is still a privileged class; and while all men and women have a duty to the community, those who receive the most from the community have in return the greatest obligation. The danger is lest college men forget this obligation and regard college only as a help to personal advancement. Dr. Daniel Hunt Clare, speaking...
...absolutely certain that the trip will be carried through, due to the possibility that the Railroad Administration may request the cancellation of the trip on account of the fuel shortage. President Lowell, however, has wired to the Administration requesting the decision on the trip, and up to a late hour last night no reply had been received...
...29th of this year there occurred a solar eclipse in Europe and pictures were taken of certain stars then seen to be near the sun. It was found by measurement that these stars were represented as being farther apart than they normally should be. That is, the rays of light had been bent while passing the sun. Einstein had predicted that this bend would be one and seven tenths seconds and this is precisely what was found to be true...
...Harvard men we are not without a certain esprit de corps. Last Saturday, for example, we gathered, a round dozen of us, at a French restaurant in Soho and enjoyed ourselves immensely at an informal little dinner at which Dr. Silberling '14 did the honors...