Word: differences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual work of the 1922 crew season will begin this afternoon for both University and Freshman squads. Today for the first time the schedule which Dr. Howe has devised for the early part of the season will be put into effect. This program will differ from previous schedules in several respects...
...very well to talk about such things, but few people will believe them until they learn from experience. And even then their judgments will differ. Some Seniors undoubtedly feel the sentimental value of the Yard; some merely enjoy rooming with a sleeted group of friends; while many of them waste no thought on it at all. Or perhaps the most universal approval arises from the convenience to the class-rooms...
...from first-hand observation, we have so far failed to observe him wandering hatless and abstracted about the Yard. It is all very well to call Harvard the "academic kingdom of heaven", and we are obliged for the compliment; but in academics, as in religion, individual interpretations of heaven differ. Our academic heaven is not of the smug, cloistered variety that escapes the noises of the workaday world by stopping its ears. We have seen too many recent examples of Harvard professors who are in the thick of the fight to be greatly disturbed when anyone accuses us of "respectability...
However men may differ as to specific remedies for the present disorders, all men of sense agree at one point, and that is the necessity of getting back to work. In the four years of the war the fruit of the work of millions of men for many years has been destroyed. It is gone, and no amount of economic juggling will bring it back. If the prosperity of the world is to be restored, it will be because we are all willing to work harder and to put more of ourselves into our work...
...generalizations upon representative cases. The British showed are such conscientiousness. But the British speakers excelled in wit and epigram. Their appeal to the audience was more direct and winningly informal they allowed time for interesting by play. In brief, the American and British methods of training debaters appear to differ in much the same war at the American and British methods of training athletes...