Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what was probably the greatest ovation that has ever been given to a private citizen. He was very old, and his voice was very broken. He advised the young men who packed the Yard to marry early. Such was his last official appearance before the University he had built. Up to the last few years of his life, he was still to be glimpsed occasionally, and at very important functions, a few embarrassed undergraduates have had the privilege of stuttering before him. But except for these, the undergraduate of this college generation must fall back on the face that...
...human things that caused it, his smile and his grave placidity, his honesty and his courage, his unerring appreciation of human values in life as in teaching, are certain to suffer some strange sea-change. Some of us today have random personal memories upon which these legends will be built; the tributes that his ninety-two years of useful life called forth will be food for still others. The something rich and strange that his name will be to future generations in the Yard will grow even more from the personal spirit than must forever live after him that spirit...
...outstanding achievements of President Eliot at Harvard were the introduction of the elective system into the College and fundamental reforms in the teaching of medicine and of the law. He built up the graduate department of the University and brought the whole institution to a position of eminence in scholarship...
...life and development of the first year students in the University. Second, there is the extension of the scheme known as cloistering the Yard, bringing with it the election of new and much needed senior dormitories. Among the other material improvements are the Jefferson Laboratory and Widener Library built and efficiently organized under him also...
...incidents that one realizes, if one stops to analyze, and placed together for no good reason at all. But there is no reason why one should stop to analyze the book unless one has already read, as had the reviewer, a short story of Mr. Buchan's built around one of the incidents. This self-plagiarism Mr. Buchan acknowledges in a note in the front, but it seems rather a pity that he should have used old, and really unessential material, in the making of the book. Besides this, there is one slip in the writing where we find...