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Word: possession (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extent the impress of the power it has wielded over the mind of man for the past nineteen centuries. For that reason the lecture to be given by Professor Perry at 10 o'clock this morning on "The Rise of Christianity" has a universality of appeal that few subjects possess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Thus for eligibility at that time, a student must possess a degree magna or summa cum laude. The increase of membership besides honoring these scholars allowed the fraternity to match its growth with that of the University and for the first time in several years has the Chapter represented the traditional 10 percent of the graduating class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AIMS EXPLAINED AT ANNUAL MEETING OF PHI BETA KAPPA MEN | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

...Epic of Slavic History is at present on exhibition in Prague, Czechoslovakian capital, where a permanent gallery for it will soon be built. It is fitting that on the tenth anniversary of Czechoslovakian independence the country should possess such a Slavic shrine, a goal for pilgrims. Slavs have inspired the shrine, a Slav has peopled it with the painted legion of his forbears, Slavs will visit it with sympathy. But the scheme was fostered by an American, financed with U. S. money. The entrepreneur is grey-haired, goateed Charles Richard Crane, supposedly of Manhattan, in reality most traveled of Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Slav Epic | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...student in a German university enjoys a liberty which the American student does not possess." This statement was made to a CRIMSON reporter by Professor Gustay Pauli, who is now giving a series of public lectures on "German Painting from Classicism to Expressionism" under the auspices of the Germanic Museum and the Fogg-Art Museum. Professor Pauli has been connected with museums in Buemen and Dresden and at present is director of the Hamburg Art Museum. He has also attended the universities of Strassburg. Basle and Leipzig...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERMAN STUDENT LIFE UNHAMPERED BY RULES | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Certainly Mr. Bartlett must admit that Lincoln was fit for the presidency. Would Lincoln be an ideal president for Harvard College? A president of a nation does not necessarily need to possess the qualities to be president of Harvard College . . . . . . . What a calamity if Coolidge were to step from the national presidency up to that of Harvard College! Mr. Bartlett feels sure he is eligible. I, then, could very easily conceive why forty professors would "fold their tents like Arabs and silently steal away". Peter J. White Bove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduate Rebuttal | 10/24/1928 | See Source »

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