Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...benefit as they understand it. It is not learned entirely from books, nor can it all be put into words. Americanization has been defined as the "grafting of the best ideals of the new world onto the best ideals of the old." In this spirit only must all citizens approach the crises of the day. Without it they will tear the structure of American society asunder...
...morning hours during the Conference will be given over to Bible study and general discussions of topics relating to reconstruction and foreign service. Any delegate will be free to approach the leaders, who are always willing to give personal interviews. There will also be special gatherings for foreign students, theological students, and student volunteers...
Spectators of Saturday's contest were treated to a surprise. Expecting little, they saw a consistently excellent meet, in addition to the establishing of a new two mile record. It speaks well for the athletes returning to college from war service that with so little training they should approach so near the records...
...scheme of electives reminds us of the approach of the time for choosing studies for next year, and brings to mind one of the tactical feelings of the elective system. Very many of us have found that the liberty given in this direction fails of accomplishing its end, and that from the want of knowledge of the nature of some of the studies offered we are but little better off than we should be if the studies were decided for us. The fault does not lie in the Elective System itself, but in the necessity of choosing without sufficient information...
...need most is not a monthly selection of the most perfect undergraduate work; possibly they are more anxious to publish material reflecting the type of writing most undergraduates like to do and expressing the thoughts they like to think, and, very possibly, they believe this is the nearest possible approach to what seems to be the unattainable ideal of a truly representative Harvard literary magazine...