Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This innovation is to supplement, not replace the old system of collegiate education. To merely recognizes the fact that it should not exclude the arts but join with them in reducing collegiate thought to a mean of common sense. Any sentimental traditions, no matter how venerable, that exclude from the college curriculum, all but scholastic abstractions untainted by the leprous touch of realism, should never stand in the way of such additions as this...
There will be a meeting of the Harvard Mathematical Club, in the common room of Conant Hall at 8 o'clock tonight. Professor H. M. Sheffer '05 is to lecture on "Brouwer's Heterodox Mathematics...
Through it all, save for applause, the audience sat still as pins. Once, high in a box, a little dog barked until his mistress had to take him outside. He was not a common little dog, however. He was a little dog who has attended many a concert. His barking was certainly not laughter "to see such sport." He was really excited. His name is Picciu. His mistress is Madame Toscanini...
President Pelley found his new railroad in better condition than it has been for many a year. In 1928 the New Haven began paying regular quarterly dividends on its common stock for the first time since its overexpansion...
Hence the development of the radial air-cooled airplane engine. In this type 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 9 cylinders radiate like spokes from a common centre. Each cylinder bristles with thin metal fins which absorb the engine's heat and spread it to the cooler...