Word: changeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soundest substantiation of Professor Taussig's advocacy of a three year course for a degree in Harvard College may be found in the proverbial assumption that the old order changeth. That the ultimate goal in many cases has been transposed from an A.B. or S.B. to a degree in one of the graduate schools is an undoubted fact. This is an age of specialization, as one is so often reminded, and specialization requires advanced and particularized training...
...creak with the footsteps of the great. Steel staircases have been installed in place of their noisy wooden predecessors, and this step is expected to do much towards eliminating the old "firetrap" hazard. To the students living in these halls, the improvement is decidedly welcome. For "the old order changeth, yielding place to new," and where 1927 sat amidst the reeking traditions of its predecessors, 1928 will enjoy the comforts of a modern hotel...
Competition of a highly developed sort has been introduced into the business of endowment fund campaigns. The old order changeth and the prosaic pleas, "give for alma mater", and "for the interests of higher education", bow before the potency of an appeal to the sporting instinct. Stipulations and conditions involving mathematical gymnastics come not single handed but in troops, forming a kind of geometrio progression, as the Law School Fund swells. Competitive giving pays best...
This year there is a new conductor Mr. Alfred Casella, favorably known here and abroad. He threatens no extraordinary innovations and promises that the Huntington surface cars will not be rivaled by Mr. Antheil's Ballet Mechanique or similar modernisms. The old order then will not changeth; and since the old order has been found entertaining in previous seasons there is no cause for complaint. And, besides, if one does not care for the Puccini there is the pop--and vice versa...
...Order Changeth...