Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard into the new and uncertain waters of the "house plan" and will accept the gift originally offered her two years ago by Mr. E. H. Harkness in order to carry it out, is unlikely to be received with an unalloyed enthusiasm. President Angell describes the gift as "of epoch-making significance in the life of the undergraduate" and the undergraduate is notably resistant to anything which threatens to make epochs for him. Yale has perhaps been more successful than Harvard in adapting the traditional forms of American collegiate life to the changed conditions and uncertain responsibilities of modern life...