Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...topics are many which will bring before the audiences chapters of history so presented as to be of value in dealing with current problems. The Institute is especially fortunate in being able to give to the public a fuller understanding of the Pilgrims and their ideals through the medium of the six lectures by Professor George Pierce Baker of Harvard University. Professor Baker, who has been selected to arrange the pageant for the Plymouth Tercentenary next year, has recently returned to this country after some months spent in England and Holland...
...concerned to have a nominating body made up of men of intelligence, foresight and executive ability, not bound by pledges prematurely given, and acting as best they saw fit in the light of changing circumstances, than it is for the party to continue to function through the medium of an assembly of acquiescent figure-heads under the domination of a few clever leaders. May the hand of progress soon ring the curtain down upon the farce of the preferential primary...
...effect that a man's pocket book is as corpulent as his person. The facts scarcely seem to bear this out. Most of our millionaires (take Mr. Rockefeller for example) do not come under the scope of such an excess profits tax as this. Most of them are of medium build; some of them are actually thin. And in this hot weather, it is not likely that anyone, millionaire or otherwise, will feel eager to undergo physical measurements...
...addresses in the Union are authorized by the Union management; musicals and Glee Club entertainments are approved by the regent, as are also student gatherings in college halls; the make-up of the sports calendar is subject to the revision of the Athletic Committee. There is no coordinating medium, however, and as a result it is difficult to choose in advance the most favorable day for this or that event...
...contrast presents itself strikingly when a report arrives from Ottawa that Canada hopes to persuade the State Department at Washington to receive an official Canadian Ambassador, that diplomatic negotiations shall be maintained directly with the Canadian government rather than through the medium of Sir Auckland Geddes, and that Great Britain has not offered any opposition to this ambition of her colony, but has rather approved...