Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would they be failures? In a previous article the writer stated that there are certain groups in Harvard College, among which is the one with the social complex. This group will support college dances either through a spirit of tradition or a desire to let the "girl back home" get a view of Harvard College glory. The Freshman Jubilees and the Junior Proms are indeed sorry specimens of Harvard glory...
...solution, the only solution, then, is this: give a Junior-Sophomore prom. Since dance expenses are a fixed element, that is, they remain practically unchanged whether 400 or 600 attend, all receipts beyond a certain amount may be devoted toward making the dance more elaborate and attractive. Favors are an essential element of a successful dance. These are given neither at the Prom nor the Jubilee, and contribute toward their failures...
Three years ago the CRIMSON announced the presentation of a cup to be awarded under certain conditions to the preparatory school editing the best newspaper. Interested in promoting the publication of accurate and timely news in a methodical manner, it has believed that a prize of this kind would help to stimulate a keener sense of responsibility as well as of competition...
Regardless, however, of what actual work he finally decides to undertake it is certain that he desires time in which to carry out scientific research which he is interested in for the Rockefeller Institute...
...throughout the history of all organized learning, but it has been challenged frequently as an anachronism based on an outworn tradition. Before our highly complex modern universities had been developed, students naturally gathered about the great teacher for intellectual guidance. Today the situation has been definitely altered. Specialists in certain fields are given the control of large institutions, a control which they either may not be capable of handling or to which they find themselves decidedly unsuited...