Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard a corporate academic conservatism? And no unbiased observer could fail to answer this question in the negative. The root of all these charge lies in a dangerous misconception; It is assumed that because many students are of the conservative class. This is obviously ridiculous. The Status of a certain group of students can neither be caused be nor cause the intellectual status of the University. Harvard maintains ideals of free speech, for example far ahead of most universities. Her funds for fellowships, scholarships and loans approach one hundred thousand dollar a year. Many of her professors are extremely redical...
...volunteer engineer corps is being organized at Technology. Major Cole, who is at the head of military affairs at the Institute, has announced that the original plan of having Technology men enter the regular work of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, including signing a pledge to take certain recommendations as to dent Maclaurin. As a result the president lar work of the Institute, and still secure for Technology men the privileges of the original plan. since the requirements for entrance into the regular Army engineer corps include the passing of an examination covering a number of subjects, it would...
...neither here nor there. And in the second place isn't form all-important anyway? For snatches of life, for casual comments, for detached thoughts that would not be improved by reaching symmetrical harmony, vers libre may be quite in keeping. But that is only saying that for certain types of verse the best form is a lack of form. There is always the dangerous temptation to express in free verse thoughts that might be more perfectly expressed otherwise. And it is that danger that has led some unkind people to characterize free verse as a vehicle for half-baked...
What is the remedy? Instead of spending a year or two in continental countries acquiring culture men should go abroad and spend the same period of time engaged in the foreign trade of the United States, for the foreign trade of this country is as certain to develop after the end of the present war as the present...
...trials for the acting candidates will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union Friday afternoon from 2 until 5 o'clock. Each candidate will be called upon to read a short selection or make a recitation of about five minutes duration. A certain number will be retained for further trial...