Word: group
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...radicals who are shrieking protests against the "entire wicked business," recalling to mind those opposers of the Constitution who declared that document a "covenant with death." But these may be discounted. The loudness of their talk can only be equalled by the fewness of their numbers. How could a group of self-respecting nations, having fought a war against the impossible conditions then existing in the world have the moral weakness to allow themselves to slip back into the same old rut? And that, coupled with internal confusion and petty wars over boundary and trade disputes, is what the world...
...tests as given yesterday at Columbia took two hours and fifty minutes, including a ten-minute period for practice with the new style of examination. An examiner, with a stop watch, presided over each group of forty or fifty. The test was divided into four parts. Each student was given at first two sharp pencils and a printed pamphlet of questions. The examiner took his stand and at a set time said "Go." Each question, or puzzle, or test--and there were hundreds of them given each person--had to be finished by the second hand and the candidate...
Campaigning for subscriptions to the Endowment Fund from the Educational Group of Greater Boston graduates of the University will be started this evening following a dinner to members of the Educational Committee, in the Harvard Club at 7 o'clock. Professor H. W. Holmes '03, chairman of the committee, will be the host...
...Educational Group as listed by the Endowment Fund Committee includes the names of more than 800 teachers, professors, librarians, and research workers in the Boston district. It is expected that fully sixty teachers will be present at the dinner to receive final instructions for the drive. Through these sixty men every one of the 800 will be interviewed personally and although single subscriptions from this group will probably not be large, Chairman Holmes hopes for a 100 per cent response to the call...
Serving with Professor Holmes on the committee in charge of this group are Willard Reed '91, assistant headmaster of the Browne and Nichols School; and Secretary of the Committee; Oscar C. Gallagher '96, headmaster of the West Roxbury High School, and recently appointed superintendent of schools in the town of Brookline; and Frank V. Thompson, A. M. '07, superintendent of schools in the city of Boston...