Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intention to establish a Summer School in the summer of 1927 which will offer courses in business to instructors in other institutions," Dean Donham said in regard to this matter...
...divide the college into small units under the same head. This, of course, does not mean that Harvard is to be chopped into bits and thown into the jaws of modernity. It suggests quite the contrary. For some time the freshman halls have served as a method of establishing contacts between members of the same class. Yet even these have suffered during the middle age darkness of sophomore and junior years when the class has scattered to cover until the rendez-vous in the Yard. The plan for a division of upperclassmen into college groups would destroy to a great...
...have arranged a suit against the Watch and Ward Society and against the agents who sell my magazines to the news dealers. I intend that the suits shall establish the principles upon which Chase shall be permitted to operate in the future, or I intend that he shall be shown to have no ground to stand on. If he wins, I shall at least have the satisfaction of the knowledge that his activities are opened to public gaze...
With the recent bequest to the University of $2,000,000 in memory of General Artemas Ward of the class of 1748, the income to be applied among other things "to establish his reputation, too long neglected as a devoted and faithful friend of his country", one more soldier of the Revolution will be rescued from the limbo of almost forgotten generals whose chief glory seems to exist, according to the popular mind, in a solitary monument on some old battlefield, or in the musty texts of arid histories and encyclopedias...
...work. The class of 1928 provides an impressive demonstration of this new principle of education. Entering Harvard under a scholastic burden almost double that of any of its predecessors, harassed by the dismal prognostications of worried alumni, it has proceeded not only to match the old standard but to establish a new and higher one. The class of 1928 in almost every respect proved itself in the tables of Dean Greenough superior to the class...