Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...numerous editions of almost all the better known books in every field. When these are used in connection with a course they naturally are taken out, and as few do collateral reading more than two weeks before it is due, I cannot see how your proposed time limit would alter the present situation. Widener's reputation for never having books when needed is largely due to the fact that every student in History 1 or French II expects to find his copy of Lynn Thorndike or "Cyrano de Bergerac" in English waiting for him a day or so before...
Editorial candidates will lay their offerings daily at 7 o'clock on the alter of the god of things as they should be, in the person of the "man in charge of the column." This competition involves familiarity with happenings in the University and in the world at large, and gives the successful competitor a better organization of opinions and a firmer command of English
...role. An archfoe of speculation for many a long year, he was bitterly chagrined with 1929?5 great wave of stock inflation in defiance of the Federal Reserve. After a year's investigation he proposed reforms which he felt would halt speculation for good and all?reforms which would alter the entire conduct of a nation's banking, which law-makers called sweeping, bankers devastating...
...Madame Zenatello, she said, for persuading her to come to the U. S. thus "advancing my career further and more rapidly than I could have done had I remained in Europe." But she continued, in the stilted phrases of her lawyers: "My gratitude does not in any way alter my conviction that she [Madame Zenatello] has been an untrustworthy and unfaithful agent." Husband August Mesritz gave details: "Not only did Maria Gay treat my wife as a puppet to be let out of a box or put in again at her behest but she seemed to live in deadly fear...
...will serve. While the care of those with minor ailments is good, many complaints have been voiced from those seriously ill. The plans that have been made for a new infirmary show the dissatisfaction that is felt regarding Stillman, but as yet no move has been publicly made to alter the situation. Harvard has always maintained its educational liberalism and progress. When the curriculum became too formal the tutorial system was instituted at a necessarily large expense in salaries. When Harvard was found too great and unwieldy a unit, money was obtained to subdivide it into smaller communities. But when...