Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are an increasing number of individuals who have sufficient resources to enable them to minister in the most substantial way to the humanitarian and artistic side of life. . . . So many of our people have large amounts of property that it is taken on the aspect of being common.* It is doubtful if there ever was a time when great wealth gave its possessors so little power as at present...
...live?" questioned Edward. "Well, you see," said Mr. Cameron, "I get ten bob [$2.40] a week from the Poor Law Guardians and 18 bob [$4.30] in vouchers for food." Thus nine mouths have been fed on $6.70 a week, and now there is a tenth. This latter aspect of miner-woe was frankly discussed by Bachelor Wales with Father-of-Eight Cameron. British correspondents indicated what H. R. H. had said by reporting that he spoke to the workless begetter with "sympathy and anger...
...further examination of the proposed new House plan which is soon to be put into operation at Harvard reveals a great many interesting phases to those who see in the situation certain conditions which might be said to parallel those at Yale. To sum up the broadest aspect of the plan, it is projected subdivision of the University into smaller residential units, and the chief purpose will be an improvement of the social side of education by the promotion of better understanding between diverse groups of students and the establishment of more thorough contacts between students and instructors or tutors...
...last calamity that seems above all others to arouse Mr. Hall's apprehension. "The Yard, our only shrine, will be obliterated" is the constant burden of his opposition. One feels tempted to ask callously, "What of it?" Certainly no Harvard man can expect the University to preserve the physical aspect of his undergraduate days. The Yard has been desecrated several times within the last twenty years, and House Plan or no House Plan will neither look the same nor hold exactly the same place in Harvard life twenty years hence as it does today...
...interesting tale, even though the race for the King's cup turned out to be, for the larger schooners at any rate, merely a protracted cruise in pleasant weather. Charts, the ship's log complete, diagrams, lists of provisions, in fact every aspect of the race is related, with one notable exception...