Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more advertisement of social service work, but more efficient administration. We could have enlisted 600 instead of 300 men before Christmas if we had time to put in four hours each morning interviewing. The social service work here has outgrown the present accommodations. The time is not far distant when a permanent graduate social service secretary will be necessary...
...Lamont's descriptive essay on Pekin leaves the reader with vivid impressions, of swarming Oriental crowds, of a blue-tiled temple roof, of the distant throbbing of a great drum. So well rendered is its portrayal of the city's Kaleidoscopic charm and immemorial antiquity, that one wishes the narrative strain of its opening had been more consistently sustained...
...seating capacity, exclusive of the boxes, and inclusive of some seats in the colonnade will be about 20,000. Of this large number of seats over two-thirds have already been sold, bringing in a total return of nearly $40,000, and many of these orders have come from distant parts of the country. The remaining seats may be obtained at prices ranging from $3.00 to $1.50 upon application to M. Steinert and Sons Co., 162 Boylston street, Boston...
...Musical Clubs. Among these boys who are just making their choice of a college, the University was advertised legitimately and effectively. This feature of the trip will probably bring many new students from the Middle West, and will do much to bring Harvard into closer touch with the more distant schools...
...incurs the expense of travelling to his home in the South or the West, and who does not have the opportunity of visiting his family but once a term. Harvard is proud of the fact that it draws its students, to a large degree, from sections distant from New England, and hence Harvard should ever bear their interests in mind. I understand that this is one of the reasons for the lengthened vacations of other large eastern institutions...