Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Student Budget system was instituted in 1926 by vote of the Student Council. Its purpose was to stop the door to door soliciting of such organizations as the American Red Cross, the Cambridge Council of Boy Scouts and the Salvation Army, and also to provide a systematic way of collecting the necessary funds for the Phillips Brooks House Association and the various activities of the classes...
...Harvard Mountaineering Club will hold a dinner in commemoration of its fifth anniversary this evening at 7 o' clock at the Harvard Club of Boston. The leading speaker of the occasion will be Dr. W. S. Ladd, president of the American Alpine Club, whose topic will be "Our Own Mountains...
...With the disappearance of the isolated college and the reduction of American life to a more general common denominator, the modern undergraduate as a rule does not wish to be, much less to appear to be, a collegian. In his own opinion, he and the man of the world are as like as two peas. He abhors the collegiate; and if he is so, there is this extenuating circumstance in his favor: He is so in spite of himself...
...friend of mine- one of that fine, hearty type who believes in being a Yale man and shaming the devil-told me his troubles. He was far from satisfied with the way things were going presently at New Haven, or, for that matter, at any of the American colleges. We were all in a bad way. He had no particular criticism to make of the teaching; this did not greatly interest him. 'But undergraduates,' he held-and on this point he was positive-'are not the men they used...
...degree of Master of City Planning is the first of its kind to be offered by any American University. The new school is an additional unit under the Faculty of Architecture...