Word: manner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elementary courses given by that department. For example, a Freshman desirous of entering a scientific field would be refused by any of the several departments on the basis of two E's in elementary science courses. About half the 23 unassigned can be accounted for in this manner...
Distinguished in appearance, impressive in speech, and Olympian in manner, he has awed class after class when he expounds the intricacies of Elizabethan interpretations, or the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf. Today ends his forty-eighth year of classroom teaching, and in the fourth and succeeding centuries of Harvard's existence, today will be remembered for that reason alone...
This question should be considered by an impartial board of arbitration, instead of having the disputed fee put on the term bill in a high-handed manner without the consent of the parties billed. Dudley Hall has brought an effective settlement of the commuter problem, but don't unsettle the settlement by tactless administration. Charles B. Feibleman...
...According to the adolescent philosophy which Willie Hearst was never to outgrow," Carlson & Bates report, "professors were the natural enemies of the students and the natural enemies of man. So in the Christmas season of 1885 he determined to put them in their place in a right regal manner. To each of his instructors he sent, elaborately done up as a Christmas gift, a large chamber pot with the recipient's name ornamentally inscribed in the bottom. The perpetrator of the lordly jest was easily discovered, and Willie Hearst's connection with Harvard ended forever...
...planning the inaugural session here this year, the "Princetonian" has had as its objective the presentation of an opportunity for selected undergraduates and faculty members of the three universities to meet prominent leaders in government and business, and to discuss with them in a straightforward and informal manner the important problems arising out of the vital topic "Government and Economic Security...