Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This general tendency toward a higher scholastic level is the result of a definite attitude which has manifested itself during the past few years. It is a well known fact that all of the extra curricular activities have had fewer and fewer students show an interest in them. Certain fields have felt this more definitely than others, with the managerial competitions showing the largest decrease in numbers of candidates...
...ever can be. Popular recognition of the value of tutorial work has become far too general among Harvard men for them to bother with any very vigorous attack upon a society which still places its emphasis upon a form of effort which has always been the delight of a certain serious sort of adolescent mind...
Money values for such things as the books in the Harvard Library are most unsatisfactory even though they make a convenient measure for showing one aspect of its development. In this ease, such a measure has a certain justification, because it represents the lowest terms by which the real worth of the collection as a whole can be judged. It is a conservative estimate that every single volume added to the Library this year has increased the value of other books already there, by at least an equal amount, whether measured in money or by the tests of value...
...funds permitted. Such accessions came at irregular intervals, however, and it was not until Professor Sachs gave his collection of the work of Bruce Rogers, that Typography was recognized as a distinct subject for which the library ought to provide a place. Mr. Hofer's gift now makes it certain that the Harvard collection of finely printed books will be easily equal to that of any other institution. The recognition of Printing as a fine art is closely connected with book illustration, and Mr. Hofer is adding important examples of the best work in this line, from the fifteenth...
...many by Lady Hamilton, together with over a hundred other documents connected with the career of the greatest of English seamen. Other documents, some of them of out-standing importance, have already begun to add themselves to those brought together by Mr. Husband as a nucleus for what is certain to become in time a great collection on Naval History...