Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Obviously Harvard has outgrown the meagre quarters of our gymnasium. . . . The time has come. I believe, when Harvard herself should take in this matter a step consistent with her general progress...
...seems to get on pretty well, staying near the head of the procession for the past three hundred years. . . . Whenever Harvard needed anything in the years gone by, a friend has always been found in the end. . . . We do not expect a new gymnasium for some time to come, but it is at least right to give people a chance; to let our graduates and friends see that Harvard has depended and will always depend upon them...
...winter of 1927, with the approaching promotion of the late Director to the rank of emeritus, it was felt that the time had come when modernization of the Museum, and its rearrangement into the still greater teaching implement, which the Division had long deserved, should at last be undertaken. Dr. S. K. Lothrop '15, who has done distinguished scientific work and was in the employ of the American Museum in New York, was invited to succeed, and he accepted the position. In the spring of last year, after having had an opportunity of estimating the condition of the Museum...
...absurdities of the House Plan as it is envisaged by its present supporters. The scheme of arbitrary assignment to Houses in accordance with the idea of a cross-section composition for each calls forth the following remarks from a proselyting member of Unit C: "When your application blanks come you must on no account mention Unit C." "Why?" "Because the dean will think you want to join the units you list because you have friends there, or because you hear the tutors are good, or because you think the fellows will be congenial, or for some other low and detestable...
Whence had these strange and noisy creatures come, creatures whose eyes were purblind, whose wings had never sufficed to raise them over the hen hutch fence? Some of them came from Guilford, Conn. These were Reptilians, low birds reported immune to disease who seemed to glide rather than walk, an almost extinct breed whose 40 remaining members are owned by Breeder Paul P. Ives. Others, George Lowry's ten white leghorns who last year laid 3,014 eggs, came from West Willington, Conn...