Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there are certain difficulties at present in organizing a canvass of the Sophomore class, it has been postponed until the call of next year. Owing to the penurious state of the average person at this period of the year, the 1919 committee has devised a system of pledges. Consequently a man of liberal inclination will not be prevented by temporary embarrassment from contributing the amount he could give at a more favorable time. The pledges will be redeemable on October first. Since the classes which contributed towards the Gymnasium Fund average about four dollars for each individual member, it seems...
...learn is to skip the headlines, except as a guide as to what the topic is. The headlines of the dailies are often unreliable and sometimes intentionally misleading as to the nature of the news underneath. To compare the history of the war as, written in the headlines of certain American newspapers, with the actual course of events would be an amusing, though profitless, occupation. Second, it is impossible to understand the progress of a campaign without a map of the field of operations. Third, it must be remembered that the date and place at the head of the dispatches...
...addresses, formal and informal, and the state papers written in the performance of his duties as an executive officer of the United States. These latter include his reports as Secretary of War, his instructions as Secretary of State to the American delegates to the Second Hague Peace Conference, and certain of his more important diplomatic notes. It is planned to keep the official documents separate from the others except in the case of the volume devoted to military organization and colonial policy. Here will be included such portions of Mr. Root's reports as Secretary of War as throw light...
...There will also be a representative in every club and fraternity in the University. Voting will take place from 7.15 until 9.45 o'clock in the morning, from 12 until 1.30, and from 5.30 until 7.15. In each voting place there will be a man in charge, and a certain number of watchers, whose duty it will be to see that each voter signs his name and class and drops his ballot into the box provided for the purpose...
...Bachelor of Science. 3. Graduates of high schools who have completed in the Department of Extension Teaching work equivalent to that offered by Columbia College or Barnard College in the first two years. 4. Students over twenty-one years of age, actively in business, and qualified to undertake certain courses, who may be admitted as special students but not as candidates for a degree...