Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...population pressure and popularity are not diminished by such measures. And the Pomonians fell to reflecting that one good creation justifies another. They pictured a group of colleges, like but distinct from Pomona, growing up together as funds became available. As the picture became a fact, they planned a general library, certain special laboratories and a central administrative body to deal with matters (for example, honors examinations) of community interest and value. They pictured a growing milieu of teachers in congenial surroundings, with wieldy groups of students and a rare chance to test and compare pedagogical theories. They saw undergraduate...
Last week was a sort of contraceptive week against the creation of huge mergers. The Government took steps to prevent the formation of two different food-products combines. A third food proposition fell through. On the other hand, certain amalgamations in other lines continued to take definite shape...
From Harvard comes word that the CRIMSON has acquired a new staff correspondent who will be known as the Student Vagabond. He will write a daily column in the Harvard paper concerning his academic travels. According to the CRIMSON the announcement of this new creation "has been greeted by members of the faculty as a progressive step toward the stimulation of intellectual curiosity." "The primary object," the CRIMSON continues, "of the daily contributions of the Student Vagabond will be to facilitate visiting by students to courses in which they are not regularly enrolled...
Harvard is a fertile field for such a creation. The academic freedom upon which rests the partial tutorial system of this great institution of true learning furnishes a fitting background from which the Student Vagabond will set out to attain his end. Such liberal tendencies in the field of education as the one mentioned above are being instituted daily the country over. We sometimes wonder whether Cornell is keeping pace with these modern conceptions of education. Rules, regulations, and restrictions would make impossible such an innovation with such a purpose as is envisaged by the creation of the Harvard Student...
...each word in all creation...