Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University last October by a series of teams of solicitors, a total of 348 men subscribed for bonds; and the amount collected reached the sum of $35,370. This drive will be carried out on a different plan, but it is expected that it will be even more successful than the last...
...settling of the problem of the ages can't be done in the twinkling of an eye--not even the legal eye. I, for one, have no such ambitions, even if I were to live and try for 'a thousand years. But though the aim be only to hint at a useful tendency--that, too, takes a certain amount of effort and patience. That is why I feel the need of coming back to the attack, on that little matter of the aims of education...
...month between the two years shows a marked increase during the fall and winter months of 1916-17 as compared with the same months of 1915-16, but from April on, with the more active interest in military affairs there was a distinct dropping off in all figures even...
...material opportunities; and therefore we should recognize, as a sine qua non for a progressive human being, a frank striving for money--and the time and things it can buy. And the goal of the terrestrial experiment seems to be the progress of the group as a group, even if for no other purpose than to shelter the specimens; and therefore the aim of life outside the ego should be, not service or sacrifice or any such personal vanity or object of backsliding, but a just acquiescence to that same striving in others which we have set up for ourselves...
...Nathan Matthews discusses the legal aspects and the educational results of the Harvard-Technology decision, and on a later page the legal document itself is reproduced. The feeling that, after all, the University is in even more healthful a condition than could be expected is borne out by Professor Munro's report of the winter term, especially by his paragraph on "College standards in war-time...