Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...constant and safe rule of international life is that Governments must not mix in the domestic politics of other countries...
...issuing the silver dollar or "cartwheel." But this endeavor failed dismally, as the public has for some reason become greatly prejudiced against the largest silver coin. From the Treasury standpoint, a circulation of silver dollars would be quite considerably cheaper than one of paper money, owing to the constant expense of engraving and printing new bills for old. Thousands of dollars could be saved annually if 40,000,000 silver dollars could be kept in circulation. But this is apparently a useless wish. Back to the Treasury the cartwheels come every time, to be exchanged for paper money more...
...modern organization of the Dean's Office, too, is one that lays constant stress on individual relationships and the treatment of the undergraduate as an individual . . . . With this organization, however, it is possible for the Assistant Dean to know every man in the class committed to his care. The growth of the College has been so rapid that since Dean Brigg's time it has been impossible for any Dean to duplicate his record of knowing every undergraduate in College. To his Assistant Dean the undergraduate normally comes to discuss problems, and not infrequently he is summoned to discuss lapses...
...John Singer Sargent, Harvard has suffered a real loss. He has, of course, done important work for the University. One thinks immediately of the decorations in the Widener Library and of the portraits of President Eliot and President Lowell. What is less known and really more important is the constant interest which Mr. Sargent had in the University and his sympathy with the University point of view...
...foremost American painter, John Singer Sargent, is the greatest artistic loss which the world has suffered in many years. To Harvard there comes also the sense of personal bereavement, for his relations with the University, which awarded him an honorary doctor's degree, have been intimate and his interest constant. Harvard, like America, can not regard his great achievements with any particular feeling of appropriation. It can lay no claim upon his distinctly universal artistry. It can only remember with pleasure that Sargent the man was in close sympathy with the University and that among other testaments of his affection...