Word: correspondence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nothing is studied for its own sake, but as it will be useful in making a practical man: thus rhetoric is cultivated, as each may be called upon to speak in the course of his life. ...Mathematics and sciences are pursued because they correspond to the utilitarian character of the country. ...The studies are as languid as in England, and the discipline as loose as in Germany...
...increased fee will correspond to that at other leading Eastern universities such as Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Williams, and Johns Hopkins. Princeton, however, has fixed its tuition...
Progress. Not a year passes without the assimilation of Alsace-Lorraine into France becoming more marked. Points of progress: 1) The entire Germanic judicial system has been transformed to correspond with French law; 2) Education is proceeding bilingually, the student being instructed in both French and German; 3) Commercially Alsace-Lorraine has forged far ahead of pre-War records. The port of Strasbourg on the Rhine has doubled its loadings since 1914. Doubled also is the value of tobacco, oil and iron produced each year. Meanwhile the hop harvest has increased in value from 25,000,000 francs...
...track team and other teams to practice at the same time without any interference with each other. The building will be 330 feet seven inches long and 159 feet wide and the area within the track oval will be 259 feet six inches by 118 feet. The structure will correspond with the Lapham Field House architecturally the walls being made of solid brick Flemish bond. The entrance to the Coxe Memorial will be but a few steps from the Lapham Field House and the lockers and showers in the latter will therefore be used in connection with the "cage...
...Constant Reader" is the busiest writer to newspapers among U. S. citizens. Other citizens-such as "Vox Populi" and "A Friend"- correspond freely with their editors. Last week another name, not wholly unfamiliar to readers of newspaper letter columns, appeared in the New York Times. This correspondent "ventured a modest demurrer" to a Times editorial belaboring the U. S. tendency to select its college presidents for various educational virtues-but not for scholarship. This correspondent gently pointed to President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard; to one-time (1899-1921) President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale; to William Rainey Harper, first...