Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room itself and opening it for some part of Sunday; or by adopting the system used by the English Department and in the Classical Library, if the expense of an attendant in Room O for the additional hours is too great. By this plan, a student could obtain a card from his advisor or an instructor in the course which would allow him admittance to Room O after the regular hours...
...quite as modest as he in advancing their ideas. Sometimes, too, the advisor turns dictator, forcing the student to take a course blindly, "for his own good". But in each case the effect is the same: having "ended" his troubles by putting down certain marks on a card, the undergraduate either wonders for the ensuing three years why he took what he is taking or else potitions for a change of concentration...
...alphabetical cliques. Instead of friendships formed by ties of similar tastes, lecture room friendships are made among men by letters. The only man to profit by alphabetical seating is the monitor; for the rest it is an abridging of the evolutionary right to freedom of selection. The German generals card-indexed the War; shall Harvard alphabetize instruction...
...Ambrosian Library, Milan. The letter is addressed to Professor Charles Rockwell Lanman, Ph.D., LL.D., Wales Professor of Sanskrit at the University, and editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, and is an acknowledgement of the receipt of a volume of the Oriental Series. There are also two post card receipts of other volumes...
...made a choice which if we were engineers we should calculate in the foot-pounds of inertia overcome--that is, if we were competent at dealing with large figures. This poet and scholar has long had the fate to be efficient in university administration: he could make one pink card do what two blue cards had done before; he could chart the careers of professors and plot the curves of deans; he could embroider academic records in beautiful sampler designs, and prune, if need be, catalogues and committee reports into the most lovely shapes--hearts, crosses, pyramids, love-knots. Because...