Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard "type" is famous, and is usually diagnosed as a complication of broad "a"s, horn-rimmed glasses, and aloofness. Such a generality is no truer than generalities ever are, this one included. We consider it scarcely fair to Williams to term it "a glorified country club", although we admit that the quantity of golf hose in the student laundry is prodigious. No more is it fair to say that your Harvard host permits you to sit in the corner until he finishes his chapter of Epicurus, and then yawns constantly during a difficult conversation...
...sensuality, and soak for four years in alcohol. If the resulting mixture has the right consistency, stamp with an official seal, wrap in parchment, and lay on a shelf. These ingredients will produce an education of approved brand. It will pass current at face value ever after and will admit the possessor to the best of fellowship. Caution: Preserve the parchment...
...future of the West Indies that concerns her. If it should ever happen that any of the islands now owned by other European nations should become salable, the Canadian might find his own interest leading him to urge Britain to purchase it, and he might be unwilling to admit that the Monroe Doctrine should be invoked to prevent the acquisition...
...rearing a family of daughters--even as a sort of distant foster-father--John Harvard would drop his book from his knees and lose his place forever. But what to do? It is unfortunate that students from Radcliffe are compelled to use Widener Library. It is a mistake to admit women students to Harvard courses. Radcliffe has its facilities and should make adequate provision for their instruction...
...Fifth. He has liberalized and modified the requirements for admission so as to admit without examination those whose scholastic standing justified that consideration, thus opening the door to many potential students who previously could not take the special courses necessary to qualify...