Word: around
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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James Russell Lowell was a product of Harvard, brought up in an atmosphere which unconsciously makes for a strong and enduring devotion to the nation. All one need do is look around him to find where Harvard gets these traditions. The Washington Elm, Soldiers Field, Memorial Hall, are mute testimonials of the part Harvard and Cambridge have played in the national crises of the past...
...April 25 and 26, and, next to the intercollegiates, will be the most important college track event of the season. Teams will be entered by the University, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell and probably several western colleges. Besides the relay races, there will be individual events and an all-around pentathlon...
...February, 1917 Col. Cabot definitely took over the unit which had increased from five hundred and forty to three thousand beds. By far the larger number of the patients were British and Canadians who had been wounded in the fighting around Ypres. At one time, during the German offensive of March, 1918, twelve hundred patients were received by the unit within twenty-four hours...
...that the college graduate of twenty-one or two will come to realize that he is not too old to pursue his studies further (in the law school, for instance, or the graduate school of business, or the technical school,) because he will understand that the longest way around is, in this case, the shortest way home...
...university which merely teaches men to enjoy the arts and sciences, which creates a class of intellectuals, does not fulfill its complete purpose. Unless the college man rolls up his sleeves and tackles the practical issues around him he is in no position to criticise the man of inferior training who does. This straightforward meeting of the problems of the day is the University's teaching...