Word: center
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 8½ hours more, they "shook hands warmly and all wore bright smiles." They were over the hardest place to reach on earth, some 400 miles south of the North Pole, the center of the Arctic...
...England but the youth of the nation, as represented by the new enrolment figures, she must gird herself to meet the requirements of that youth. Not the insular function of a provincial university those duty is to the youth of that area, but the wider function of a center of learning open to all those in the land who are best fitted to work under her guidance--that is the difficult role which is now Harvard...
...faculties, then," writes Professor Mussey, "will only forget their methods and devices, their endowments and equipment and paraphernalia, their hopes of prosperity and success, of riches and power, their hordes of so-called students indifferent and incompetent--if they will but forget all these and center, their thought on that youth of the starry eyes and the dream in his heart: if they will but see him as the child of this puzzling, fascinating, maddening world of yesterday and today, inheritor of its riches, its traditions, its burdens, its sins: will see him as a maker of the world...
...Freshman game, Ketchum scored his fifth victory of the season, allowing the Dartmouth Freshmen nine hits and winning by a 10 to 4 score. Crotily, the Crimson center fielder, was the hitting star with three safe blows in five attempts. One of them was a home run which scored three men ahead...
Following the razing of St. Paul's Church last spring, a corporation was formed to undertake the erection of a twelve story hotel on this site. As this building would have been placed in the very center of the district between the group of College buildings in the Harvard Yard and the group along the Charles River the project aroused considerable opposition. Among those who felt this objection most strongly was Mr. Stillman, and under his direction the site of the Church and the rectory was purchased by Moodna Farms. During the past year the land has been held...