Word: amid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...done much toward making the combination, commended the enthusiastic way in which the members of each faculty have accepted a change that will so effect their individual positions. After a hearty assurance of alumni support from Odin Roberts, vice-president of the Harvard Club, President Lowell was introduced amid cheers by both Harvard and Technology...
...fulfills its purpose. Seeing that the efforts of professional architects have had such feeble results, would it not be well to hold a prize competition for designs among the members of our School of Architecture? It would arouse interest there by presenting the students with a concrete problem amid conditions with a which they are familiar. The decision would furthermore have the advantage of Professor Duquesne's judgement, and could be brought into harmony with his plans for improving the appearance of Harvard square. PHILIP MCMAHON...
...keep them from thorough work on theses and longer reports, there has been afforded a striking verification of the old but significant adage that he who will can find time for any task; the busiest man is usually the one who finds it possible to do the extra tasks. Amid the work of managing the business of collegiate life it should be as possible as it is desirable to accomplish some achievement which will in itself endure alongside of the less tangible results of our daily activities...
...transfer these to the intellectual field? Mr. Chubb follows out this idea more cleverly, perhaps, than practically. His scheme would really come down to this: he would like the scholastic victor to be carried from the gridiron of intellectual contest on the (figurative) shoulders of his comrades amid the overwhelming cheers of a crowded (symbolic) stadium! Mr. Chubb knows very well he is only trying to strike the undergraduate in that "last infirmity of noble mind...
...Dunbar's essay, with more variety of style but less skill and general finish seeks help elsewhere. Amid random shots at present evils that dishearten the poor undergraduate, such as bad lecturing, bad prescribed reading, and that abomination the "section-man" (!), he has at least one real suggestion-something not very distantly akin to the Oxford tutorial system. Even if treasures shine from the end of the road of scholarship equal to those which beckon men to athletics (to drive home the brilliance of the metaphor), it is extremely doubtful whether many worthy undergraduates will alter their extra-curriculum activities...