Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warning to Congress is neither petulant nor threatening. The legislative branch of the government has steadily declined in prestige since the World War. An appeal for "Congressional expression, not mere avoidance" brings to a focus attention which has been wandering throughout the session from resolutions on international conferences to disputes over points in procedure, without any definite objective...
...Each branch of sport is treated separately, arranged in the order in which the competitions with Yale began--rowing, baseball, football, track and field athletics, hockey and, finally, brief statements about lawn tennis and golf, for the "H" is given to Harvard men who win the Intercollegiate tennis championship in singles or doubles and to men who win the intercollegiate golf championship...
...possibility of a tunnel under the Bering Strait has been brought up again. In speaking before a branch of the American Asiatic Association, Julian Arnold, Commercial Attache of the United States to Peking, advocated the construction of this connecting link between America and Asia,--a step which would make possible a railroad from Chicago to Peking, and eventually from New York to Paris and Berlin, via Nome and Omsk. Should this plan ever be put into effect, the globe-trotter would no longer be forced to endure the hardships of any voyage save that across the Atlantic. The Peterkin family...
...elements in the curriculum differing widely from those of other colleges. Liberalists make for training of intelligence almost exclusively, while technical institutions seek to develop the technical side, but what we wish to do is to devise a complete combination of personality without collecting a superfluity of any one branch of development...
...This is true," said President Little is conclusion, "not only on the athletic field but in every branch of activity that demands earnest effort, such as college publication, dramatic activities and debating. This last I think to be an especially good intellectual developer. The process of getting to the bottom of a subject--and you can't do that without a good deal of hard work--is a good steadying influence on the mind and reasoning powers. So long as a student can keep above board in his work I think his other activities should not only be permitted...