Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken pride in allowing her sons to follow their own bent down the paths of learning. As a result the uniformity which a thorough grounding in the classics gave the Harvard graduate of thirty years ago has disappeared. Now Harvard turns out physicists, chemists, and social scientists, whose only common bond is the proven ability to swim 50 yards...
Designed "to acquaint students with opportunities for summer jobs of a specifically social nature," P.B.H. and the Student Union are jointly sponsoring a conference in the Leverett House Common room tomorrow night at 8 o'clock...
...Masters have agreed that as an experiment for the year 1939-40, each House will admit 10 to 12 Associate Members who will be give the privileges of the dining hall, common room, library, and extra-curricular activities of that House. Associates will be selected from the waiting lists of those who applied earlier...
...mediocre charcoals and lithographs, together with an unusually fine etching compose the exhibit of Kathe Kollwitz's work now being shown in the Leverett House Common Room. The quality of the pieces in the collection is of secondary importance, however. What is far more pertinent is the fact that for the second time this year certain members of Leverett House have had enough practical initiative and aesthetic sensibility to remove the capital "A" from the word "art." An average painting hanging on the wall of a House Common Room is of much more value than a most highly prized Rembrandt...
Under the auspices of the American Civilization Committee, Stewart Holbrook, author and ex-reporter, will lecture tonight at 7:15 o'clock in the Upper Common Room of the Union. His subject will be "A Century of from and Steel...