Word: dust
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nearly every college room contains a dozen or more dust covered study books which the owner has forgotten about. If all these owners of superfluous books and clothes will remember that the collectors make their rounds today, they will be able to make useless possessions serve some actual good...
...number begins with an amusing editorial on Billy Sunday, in which the editor, overcome by the hyphenated political matter of the day, places an unnecessary separative in the "saw-dust" trail...
...hundredth anniversary of the Harvard Divinity School. That famous institution really had its beginning in 1636, when money for the establishment of the college was voted by a General Court which "dreaded to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." But the school was only gradually differentiated from the College, and not until 1816 was the distinction between them definitely and formally made. The same year saw the foundation of a "Society for the Promotion of Theological Education in Harvard University," the first class graduated from the school in December...
...that the School is only a century old for they date its foundation back to October, 1636, when the General Court of the newly settled colony voted money to establish the college, "dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministry shall lie in the dust." Instruction in theology was given in the college from the time of its first opening, and the first professorship instituted was the Hollis professorship of divinity, established in 1721. The differentiation of the divinity school from the College was very gradual and for many years previous to 1816 students...
...there are now two traditions: the one, that Senior classes always room there; the other, that the old dormitories are most undesirable places to live in. The latter tradition has more than a little foundation owing to certain crudities in the conditions there, such as the furrowed floors and dust-spreading brooms. Nevertheless, these old dormitories are now equipped with all the conveniences of Mt. Auburn street, with the exception of swimming pools and elevators. And it need hardly be said that any man who cannot forego these two luxuries and undergo the other minor discomforts...