Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press; the twentieth century is that of the cinema," declared Dr. Luciano de Feo, Director of the International Educational Cinematography Institute of the League of Nations in a recent interview with the CRIMSON. Dr. de Feo is in the United States for a few weeks attempting to establish an "entente amicale" between his organization and the American film industry and visited Cambridge to inspect the Harvard Film Foundation...
...solution of the compulsory Chapel problem to be found in recent collegiate annals. No longer will puzzled Deans knot their brows over the baffling question of just how religious Mr. So-and-so may be; a momentary reference to the files of the records office will be sufficient to establish beyond a reasonable doubt just the intensity of godly devotion which exists in the soul of any undergraduate. And conversely sinister addiction to ways of sin may be easily brought to light before things have gone too far for proper treatment...
This division may be a salutary one. But it seems that conducting specialized work along with the general would establish a more equable balance between the two. A student with three full years to absorb his entire subject for examination at the end of his course will have sufficient background by his Senior year to attempt a specialized job in the form of a thesis, while he is finishing his general work on his field. Each portion of his work should profit from association with the other. The final divisional examination then becomes a true test of general knowledge clarified...
...money of the late Adolphus Busch of St. Louis and the late George Ehret of Manhattan poured freely in to establish Deutsches Haus. It was intended to be a focal point of German culture at Columbia and in Manhattan. But German culture, like Wagner operas at the Metro politan Opera House, disappeared from Manhattan during the War. Only last week did this last War-bred taboo disappear from Columbia...
...Freshman Halls proctor wears for his flock, the proctor in upperclass dormitories also loses prestige as a social factor and consequently has little in the nature of a beneficial heritage to bequeath to a tutor. To combine the duties of the two very dissimilar offices would do nothing to establish the desired intimate relation between the tutor and the tutee in the new houses...