Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...clear the writer of Saturday's communication aimed his criticism at the liberals in this University, particularly those who chided the authors of recent effusions on the subject of deported aliens. Has it occurred to the gentlemen that their metaphor may be inapplicable, that instead of being a class of people standing "on the fence," the liberals are steadily traversing the road of progress, while on one side the reactionaries flounder in the morass of outgrown institutions, and on the other the radicals flit along in pursuit of the elusive mirage of Utopia...
...announcement has been made by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that no temporary successor to the late President Maclaurin is to be named and that the presidency of that organization is to remain vacant indefinitely. Instead, the functions of the office are to be carried on by an administrative committee of three from the faculty, this committee to have the co-operation of a special committee of three members of the executive board of the corporation...
March 12 has been set as the date for the Junior Dance instead of March 5, as had been previously announced by the committee in charge of arrangements. A number of reasons have made necessary this change, among the most important of which is the fact that the University hockey team will not be out of training before the first-named date. The annual "prom" at Princeton had also been previously scheduled for March 5, and the committee feared that complications would arise if both dances were given on the same night. Another cause for the change of date...
Tryouts for the Pasteur Competition will be held in Sever 11 at 7 o'clock this Friday evening instead of Thursday as had previously been planned. Five-minute speeches by each contestant on either side of the question: "Resolved. That France and Belgium should be reimbursed for all actual destruction of property during the war by Inter-Allied loan, to be repaid eventually with the German Indemnity Loan," will complete these first trials. Six men will be retained and will speak in the final debates in February...
...fact that the most "stupid" boy might be able to put the teacher to shame in the workshop or studio,--in a subject in which he has received no encouragement from his school. So long as present requirements exist, the school must continue to prepare its students for college, instead of preparing them for life...