Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although it may seem a bit premature to ask Freshmen, who are only just now becoming adjusted to life in the Yard, to focus their attention on things ahead, it is never too early for them to think about the Houses. Since three years of their undergraduate careers are more than likely to be spent in the Houses, there is every reason for the men now in the Yard to begin to think about the Houses in which they would prefer to live. One of the best ways to get to know the Houses from the inside...
...usual, therefore, the British Foreign Office thought last week in terms of both hemispheres and in terms of war and politics ahead of economics. Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is none too pleased that the Chinese Government has now taken in the Chinese Communists and that envoys dash by chartered plane between Nanking and Moscow. Although President Roosevelt was offering the United Kingdom the chance of the century to extract the U. S. from isolation and team it up with Great Britain, this week Downing Street had its careful fingers crossed...
...gazed at us attentively while we were about to frame our question, asking for direction to one of the smaller but gayer places for sustenance, but before we could put all that into words, the policeman said, not at all unkindly, but with a definite note of reproof, "Straight ahead and turn left at the next traffic light for Harvard Square...
Although only three undergraduates took advantage of the offer of the special rates on the train going down to Baltimore under the auspices of the Boston Harvard Club, backers of the plan are going ahead enthusiastically and declared last night that their plans were succeeding...
...when Archbishop Laud threatened the very existence of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, there have been obstacles in the path of Harvard's progress. Whenever possible, the College has adapted itself to the changing conditions of national life and so guided its development that there have always been new fields ahead in which it might play the role, as Mr. Conant phrases it, of "innovator and pacemaker." But when the conditions have been such that they menaced Harvard's existence in any form, the College has not been too proud to fight...