Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inexactly known, because, no doubt, it varies in extent. It consists of seaweed assembled in that very mild sort of eddy which is developed by the Gulf Stream on the one side and by the Equatorial Current on the other. Similar aggregations of weeds, though smaller in extent, exist under like conditions in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The weeds, however, are not dense. They grow in patches here and there over the area, affording food for marine life...
...Undergraduate Yale the Raison D'Etre for the Whole:--Whereas it is fitting and desirable that some institutions be centers of wholesale and higher learning, stressing graduate work, we believe that at this university the graduate schools should exist primarily because they make possible a better undergraduate system: that Yale should be distinctly an "undergraduate university...
...extra-curricular activities, and less participation in the extra-curricular for mere name and glory rather than interest: Unnecessary work which tests nothing but submissive endurance should be removed in so far as it is possible from managerial and publication competitions. We will consistently oppose such tendency as may exist to honor a man for the positions he holds rather than for what...
...stirring up something which I wish we didn't have to," said Coach E. A. Stevens of the University crews in discussing the innovation of a general mass meeting at the beginning of the crew's season, "but I feel it necessary to clear up some misunderstandings which exist in regard to the crew situation. There is criticism among graduates and undergraduates that crew is a closed sport at Harvard, and I want to explain the relation which crew wishes and ought to bear toward the college. I can do this only in a general meeting...
...remains that if death or disability shall overtake one of the persons in favor of whom the Presidential Electors received the majority of votes between the election day in November and this second Monday in January, the discretion will still be found to exist and the members of the Electoral College will still be found to exercise...