Word: set
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students in 1916 the total has swollen to 158,816. Although the colleges were not wholly prepared to receive these great numbers, and even had to tell many that they could not receive them, and although they found that educational conditions were in a chaotic state, they set to work to effect a readjustment on a fundamental and expansive basis. Today they are ready to solve any problem that may be thrust upon them and ready for an era of unparallelled prosperity...
...ought to be good news to the musical public in Boston and in Harvard University that the Harvard Glee Club is planning a season in which the new standards which have been set up for college singing in Cambridge will be so clearly illustrated. Boston has always owed much to Harvard for its best music. The Harvard Musical Association, founded by Harvard men who wanted to preserve the musical interests which the Pierian Sodality had awakened in them, established more than fifty years ago the orchestral concerts to which, in a natural sequence, the concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...set as the ultimate goal the interests of society rather than the restoration of an equilibrium supposed to be disturbed by an offense. Thus what we are interested in is the avoidance of a driving together of all the forces of discontent, by failure to classify them properly...
...Chivalry in English Literature," and "Mythical Bards and the Life of William Wallace." The latter book has been but recently written and will be on sale the 15th of the month. It treats of early British folk-lore, with especial emphasis on the tale of William Wallace as set forth by "Blind Harry," practically the only source of our knowledge of the legendary hero's deeds...
...previous years the chief difficulty has been the shortness of the Christmas recess, but this year one day's extension of the time set by the college office would be ample to allow the team to reach Pasadena and pass a week getting acclimated to Coast conditions...