Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peculiar position that has grown up from the fact that Harvard, together with a small clique in the east that includes Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Pennsylvania, were the pioneers in intercollegiate athletics. These schools were the oldest in the country and they were the first to establish athletics on a plane in any way comparable to the present highly organized system of university sports...
...with those other events in the history of the stars, then astronomy finds the headlines of every newspaper in the country, then Dr. Shapley is besieged by reporters, and his work and that of his associates is the subject of columns of space. Likewise, the announcement that Harvard will establish a new station in South Africa finds its way into a prominent place in the evening newspapers under the heading. "Harvard Will Have Largest Telescope in Southern Hemisphere." That is news. But what great things that telescope discovers about the heavens will continue to find their way to the wastebasket...
Today's contest will only be the second scheduled one of the year for the first year six, but their opening game gave them a flying start and they bid fair to establish a reputation on a par with those of former teams...
...always been based on the assumption that it was not a subsidiary department, but a parallel one. It has always been assumed that the tutor was to contribute something to the education of the student which he could not obtain from the work which he did in courses. To establish a graded system of promotion from the ranks of tutors to the rostra of lecture balls would destroy this primary purpose of the system. It would substitute for the better type of tutor, at present to be found in the History, Government and Economics Departments and in lesser numbers among...
...plan. I intend to use another ship made by the builders of the S-35, the trimotored Sikorsky which turned a cartwheel as we were taking off in it for Paris last autumn and burned up two of my companions. If successful this time we might we hinted, establish a transatlantic mail and passenger service...