Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concentrating in Philosophy or Psychology and who intend to be candidates for the Bachelor's degree with Distinction at Commencement, 1923, must make application to the Division today, if they have not already done so. They must also state in what particular branch of their subject they have specialized. It is also required that they register at the office of the Dean of the College before 5 o'clock this afternoon...
...from Ur of Chaldea. And Noah might have been confused in his story: responsibilities aboard-ark must have made it difficult for him to scan the horizon with full care. Perhaps an unnoticed house-top floated away with a pair of lucky occupants to another valley, saving the Sumerian branch of the family to carry on the tradition in Babylonia...
...emphasis that is being placed on 150-pound rowing this year. The success which has attended the efforts this fall to provide good equipment and adequate coaching for the light-weight candidates bids fair to continue on into the future, and there is little doubt that this branch of crew work at the University will soon become an essential feature on the Harvard rowing program...
...Officers' Training Corps at Cambridge, said Mr. Thayer, while not so complete or extensive as the great military schools of Sanders and Aldershot, which correspond to West Point, gives a man a thorough three year course in one branch of military service, and leads to an active commission in the British Army...
...Cambridge system is not one of a number of courses, but is a special field to which the student gives most of his time. His day, for example, begins at six o'clock, when he is required to ride for an hour if he is in a mounted branch of the service. The Cavalry and Infantry detachments are strongest at Cambridge, though a great many branches are represented. Besides the regular winter work, each student is required to spend one month every summer at a military camp. The work here is of a more practical nature, but still does...