Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recoil engenders an opposite one-sidedness in himself. He abhors the "grind", or anything that looks like one. As for himself, he has won social distinction. He is elected to a club, or to half a dozen and the effect is cumulative. Thus he tends to over-rate this aspect of his education and be content with a "gentleman's C" in his courses...
...briefly and informally recent developments at the University. There will be an opportunity for questions and general discussion. Following this, groups of students to be designated later by the Committee, will show the visitors and graduates about the Yard, so that they may see the recent changes in physical aspect of the University. Special exhibitions will be arranged in certain of the buildings...
...scarf, with white sweaters, gave the University crew almost an English aspect, as the English Crews habitually wear scarfs while rowing. It also brought to mind the story of how Harvard got its crimson color, when the 1855 crew wore red handkerchiefs to distinguish themselves from the other crews on the river...
...matter has its converse aspect. There is the legend of the professor and a Harvard professor it was, too, who was pursuing the even tenor of his lecture when a student raised his hand for a question and inadvertently he recognized him. The student asked his question and the professor turned to his notes. "It doesn't say," he admitted. More guarded was the Anglo-Saxon instructor who lost his copy of Caedmon and dismissed the class for a week...
Everyone knows the hideous aspects of erysipelas. From a tiny red blotch at the nose or on the cheek near an eye, an angry red spreads out into a wide, fiery stain. The skin tingles. It burns. When the stain reaches the spongy cheek or lip tissues, these swell into a horrible, puffy, burning mass. Sometimes the disease works into the scalp and down the neck. The toxins are filtering through the lymphatic fluids. The patient is feverish and drowsy. Heretofore the only cure has been to let the disease run its course, to ease the pain by hot fomentations...