Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...free and abundant farm land in the United States is past. All of the best land is occupied, and the farmer can no longer extract the largest crops, regardless of future fertility, and then move on to another tract of virgin soil. The land must be farmed carefully and scientifically; it must yield more per acre...
...following extract taken from the New York Evening Post is particularly pertinent in regard to an evil which seems to be gaining firmer hold on the colleges. It discusses the growing evidence that colleges are willing to make professional athletes of schoolboys in order to induce them to play on their teams...
...Harvard College were used as army quarters in the Revolutionary War; Memorial Hall and Soldiers Field are monuments to the Harvard men who fell in 1861-65. Yet we of the present generation, while we deeply sympathize, can hardly appreciate the conditions in European universities today. The following extract from the Review, of Cambridge, England, shows a situation and a spirit which are only too common in institutions of learning throughout all Europe...
...current issue of the North American Review contains an article on "Culture" by President Lowell in which he discusses culture as attained by college and graduate school studies. The following is an extract...
Professor Kuno Francke LL.D. '12 has written a comprehensive and illuminating article on "The True Germany," of which the following is an extract...