Word: brought
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fitting place for a part of the Class Day exercises but for Commencement it is in every way unsuited. No other place is at present adequate. So great has been the exclusion from recent Commencements that few know what the exercises consist of. Parents, graduates and undergraduates might be brought closer together in academic feeling by the unifying effect of great assemblages representing all branches of a great University. Such gatherings should be possible at any time in the year. Men at times visit the University whom all wish to see and hear. Such great gatherings are inspiring to greater...
...Rice is the only white man ever to reach the sources of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers, and from his last South American expedition brought back the important ethnological collection now in Peabody Museum. He also succeeded in mapping practically the entire Amazon and the Rio Negro...
...proper, but also the economic question of immigration of a type of labor which does not strive for a standard of living equal to our own. Japan, with reference to the Chinese recognizes this economic phase of the question. Only recently a large number of Chinese laborers who were brought to Japan under contract to work for fifty cents a day for three years were sent home at a cost of twenty-five thousand dollars to the Japanese company that imported the Chinese, it having been discovered, after protest had been made by Japanese labor, that the company had failed...
...colleges, but a departure from this "standard" should not be condemned because it is a departure. When, for instance, some institution, as Yale, makes a change in her system, as she did by abolishing a four-year Latin training for entrance, the only telling argument which can be brought against it is to show that the plan is out of harmony with the times...
George Arliss has brought a Barrie play of marked distinction to the Hollis Street Theatre in "The Well Remembered Voice", which is given in conjunction with Hubert Henry Davies' three act comedy, "The Mollusc." A war story with a spiritual theme has to be unusually convincing to hold the interest of the theatre going audience today--the public is rather well fed up now on the war. Yet Barries' play is not only convincing, it is artistic and sets us to metaphysical speculations and analyses, which our ordinary every day life tends to suppress...