Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What prompted the experiment? What effect has it produced on the educational system at Harvard? What ideal does it endeavor to approach, and is that a worthy ideal? When we have answered these questions, we shall have discussed, in essence, the vital problems of the divisional examination and the tutorial system coexistent with...
...Coolidge has lately adopted the following style of handshaking: Standing next to a queue of visitors and facing them obliquely as they approach, he extends his hand, grasping that of the first man in the line. Shaking the hand, smiling at the visitor and saying a word, he draws his arm back, pulling the visitor past him. Any inclination to linger on the part of the visitor is forestalled as the President extends his hand to the next and draws him, likewise, past. This practice is said to result in an economy in time...
...What is the law?" is the recurrent question asked by a republican nation. With deliberate speed-though the summer holidays approach-with majestic instancy, nine remote men make answer in thousands of decisions, mostly technical and dull...
...horizon. Steaming in that direction at once, the Arcturus came to Albermarle Island, largest in the Galapagos group, where two volcanic peaks were flaming with "fiery cascades of lava ... an unforgettably magnificent spectacle." The photographers on the Arcturus acted. Beebe and a companion, John Tee Van, attempted to approach one of the craters on foot, were driven back by poisonous gases. Forthwith Beebe dubbed the craters Mounts Williams and Whiton, after patrons of the expedition...
...reasons alleged the desecration of the American flag, and the reproduction with slight changes of a famous painting banging in the Luxembourg are almost too puerile to merit credence. It seems clear that in this case the guardians of our patriotism and morals approach the stage of being nuisances rather than legitimate defenders. C. T. Lane '26. President of the Liberal Club...