Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Widener is by situation lord of the Yard and in theory the focal point of Harvard. It boasts many superlatives. It is the largest department of the University and one of the most expensive. Under its roof is gathered the most complete aggregation of pre-Mussolini Italian books, the best...
Assisting Packard is Dr. Frederick W. Ilfeld of the Hygiene department. The two men started the course three years ago to help students remove speech impediments and also to collect data on all forms of vocal disorder by means of voice recordings.
The course is open to all members of the University regardless of department. In addition to undergraduates, members of the class in past years have come from all the Graduate Schools. Thirteen men are now enrolled in the course and others desiring to enter may arrange with Packard.
Despite all that Yale and her scholars can do to purify the English language, Harvard's pedantic phrases are ever with us. In fact they are so firmly entrenched at Cambridge that the Maintenance Department has just glorified a new exit in Sever Hall with the sign "Emergency Egress Only...
By 1928 his teaching-legal duties had worn him to a frazzle and he returned to Yakima to practice. After ten days he changed his mind, hustled back to Manhattan to teach full time at Columbia. A year later he idealistically resigned because President Nicholas Murray Butler appointed a new...