Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reached Cambridge about eight o'clock. It is not a large village, and the houses stand very much apart. The college building is the most conspicuous among them. We went to it expecting to see something unusual, as it is the only college, or would-be academy of the Protestants in all America, but we found ourselves mistaken. In approaching the house we neither heard nor saw any- thing mentionable; but, going to the other side of the building; we heard noise enough in an upper room to lead my comrade to say: "I believe they are engaged in disputation...
Professor C.N. Greenough, of the department of English, says of the scheme, "It is hoped that, by the new arrangement, English composition may be thought of as standing less apart from a man's other studies than often seemed to be the case under the older plan. The mixed sections will not be given up, or their numbers greatly diminished, unless the new plan clearly proves its superiority. It has not been attempted before, so far as we know, and it will be very encouraging from every standpoint if it succeeds...
...homily will certainly be dangerous doctrine for Freshmen unless it is very carefully read and perhaps even then. It seems to mean that in this strange, new college world the things for which men work unitedly are not worth while, and that the things which men get by keeping apart are valuable. What it does mean, of course, is something quite different; namely, that we are to "prove all things: hold fast that which is good." As for the counsel about "leading well," one hopes that the average Freshman will at least postpone his study of that difficult art until...
Holy Cross is also on the schedule of both colleges, but on dates three weeks apart--playing Yale on Saturday and Harvard on the eighteenth of October--so that a comparison would not be as effective as in the first case...
Today for the second time, Harvard Commencement Week will be opened with a day set apart to Phi Beta Kappa exercises and the announcement of scholastic prizes--this year, a day made especially significant by the ceremonies at the laying of the cornerstone of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library...