Word: butting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These words apply to the cases of many men in Harvard. They come here as strangers from an obscure school, in contrast with those who enter from the big preparatory schools, and make up their minds to be lonely. Because somebody doesn't pull them out of their solitary state...
On arriving at the end of their college days, how many men have found themselves lonely, unknown to their classmates! How many, in looking back over their college career, have recognized their mistakes too late. General Johnston once exclaimed, when he had missed a train, "I ran fast enough but...
"The undergraduate program of this school are, in conformity to the best prevailing practice, straight courses in civil, mechanical engineering, etc., intended to fit young graduates to do well such work as will be expected of them according to the best standards of their chosen professions. Expert special knowledge is...
In order to fulfill the requirements laid down by Gordon McKay in his will, and also to open the school to desirable boys from high schools and academies, the admission requirements to the first year of the school have been made the same as for the Freshman Class in Harvard...
"Engineering students are on the same footing as students in Harvard College in respect to dormitories, clubs, athletics and social activities, except that they will have less time for such matters. For a few months the work of the school will be carried on at a disadvantage, a condition to...