Word: building
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When asked whether a new library would be built on the site of the famous old one which was completely destroyed, Professor De Wulf replied: "No, they will not build there, but we will probably leave the ruins there. The university would not be free to build on the ruins. It is an historical monument, and the government would interfere with any change. The American universities have raised $500,000 to erect a new library, which will probably be built outside the city on more extensive grounds. I don't know when they will begin to collect books...
...after life his ideas, subjected to all kinds of tests at college, crystalize in new convictions. It is the function of college to make him suspend judgment until he has a wider range of material on which to build more mature decisions. The man who goes through his undergraduate training with an "idee fixe," intolerant of others' opinions; the man who is sure of himself and his ideas, is missing the true point of higher education...
Centre College suffers least with the loss of but one man, Davis, while the University of Pennsylvania will have to build almost a new team. Cornell also loses heavily as does the Army eleven with only three regulars returning...
Prospects for major sports are very promising. In football there will be a wealth of material from which to build a strong Tiger gridiron squad. A large number of this year's squad will be back, including Baker, Bibler, Callahan, Davis, Garrity, Keck, Lourie, Murrey, Parisette, Scheerer, and Wittmer, all of whom are letter men. The ranks of next year's eleven will be further strengthend by the addition of the undefeated...