Word: advent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chemistry, or engineering sciences. In a university such as this there is certainly room for a new branch of learning; and if we are to take up a subject, it is infinitely to our advantage to have it well taught. Secondly it is important to note that the advent of the Artillery School will in no way disrupt the progress of courses in the University through conflicts, inasmuch as the drills which have, in the past, come at most inopportune hours and necessitated constant changing from mufti to olive drab and back again, have now been relegated to the summer...
Last season candidates for the rifle team were not called out until February 20, when a series of matches with other colleges was arranged, but the advent of the war caused the abandonment of the sport. Two years ago the University rifle team was a member of the National Rifle Association, a league of those colleges which had teams in the field. The colleges were divided into classes according to the calibre of their teams, and the University was put in class C when the sport was first organized. The difficulty with this was that Yale, Princeton, and Cornell were...
...readjustment of certain phases of undergraduate life which followed the advent of the Freshman Dormitories two years ago led to the formation of a new agreement between a number of the clubs regulating the election of members...
...return of so many of the old boys, and the advent of the new boys, gives to the Square somewhat of the same appearance that it has had for ten generations of college classes...
...Thus the advent of a Frenchman distinguished in the study of English can only be hailed with great satisfaction. Curiously enough Professor Cestre is to give in English a course on the romantic poets. It was the same subject which in English 24 Professor Neilson made such a pleasure for all those who entered his class. The entire University extends a hearty welcome to Professor Cestre, but the English students are of fering prayers of thanksgiving to the muses and fates in so conniving that such a man should come to Harvard at exactly the right time...