Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second consecutive year the Boston Latin School, of which P. T. Campbell '93, is head master, has won the Scholarship of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The competition is open to all schools of the United States which prepare not less than seven boys for college. An important aspect of the competition is that the winning school need not send any of its students to Harvard. The offer provides that the award go to that school of which seven graduates as a team attain the highest average on College Board Examinations embracing the four major fields of each...
...These four branches of culture are; first, the relationship of Classical language, art, and philosophy to the German; second, German, French, and English cultural achievements as compared with one another; third, the study of the German language, literature, music, painting, architecture, and philosophy; and fourth, the mathematical and scientific aspect of modern life. The gymnasia, which correspond to the American high school and first half of college, are divided into four types, each covering one of these fields...
...status of the Dominions: "The position and mutual relations of the group of self-governing communities composed of Great Britain and the Dominions may be readily defined. They are autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status and in no way subordinate one to the other in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...recent article Mr. Gilbert Seldes points to the mechanical aspect of life in the United States--symbolized by the little electrically-made cubes of ice--as a possibility which might develop American taste away from the baroque. The smooth simplicity of things mechanical, embodying at the same time, comfort and even luxury, appear to him to be able to keep the American standard near a same norm...
Generally, speaking, the Harvard undergraduate attitude certainly tends more to caution, to coolness, to skepticism, than does that of most other colleges; but this, conceivably, is only an aspect of the general Harvard tendency to look things over a little more carefully than is apt to be done elsewhere. And while the undergraduate body may be less reconsiderable doubt whether the Harvard ligious than some others, it is open to alumni would not average up about as much religion per captia as would the graduates of most other large universities...