Word: affections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposite side of the question, Mr. S. K. Kerns '98, headmaster of the Country Day School, was well pleased with the ruling. "The new decision does not affect us very much," he said, "as our boys seldom fail to pass in June. Since Mr. Pennypacker became Chairman of the Committee on Admission things have been run well and intelligently. I do not know the reasons back of the new rule, but I think it is an excellent...
...however, the wheel has turned again. U. S. capital is becoming interested in the Sonneberg district of Germany with the view to rehabilitating its famous toy industries. The move will not affect this Christmas buying; but, by another Christmas, as Government trade experts point out, our toy markets may be flooded with cheaper toys from abroad...
...Dean Greenough explains, ever since the increased requirements for Freshmen went into effect a year ago, with disastrous results for many members of last year's Freshman class. Parrots school masters, and others have been calling to the attention of the college office a number of unfavorable conditions which affect Freshmen at Harvard in their work...
...Harvard man you must have "the Harvard manner." That seems to be a self-evident proposition. It is never argued, but taken for granted, it crops out in the most unexpected places. When anybody offends you by seeming to affect an intellectual superiority, just look up his antecedents and if it turns out that he was once of our fellowship (even as a student in the Summer School) the whole thing is explained. This notion that all Harvard men run true to type has travelled...
Professor Koffka has been invited by the Graduate School of Education to spend three days here lecturing on a new and very important movement which has started in Germany and which may affect educational methods all over the world. He is Acting Professor of Educational Psychology at Cornell University this year, and has therefore had ample time to study and compare American universities to those in Germany...