Word: extend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reported to be in fighting trim, and straining at the leash for the evening's operations on the moonlit steps of Widener. Spreads will be spread thick in every nook and cranny of the Yard, and many will be the rows and festoons of Japanese lanterns, which will extend the joys of the holiday far into the night. Even the weather man is on our side, an occasion rare in old New England. Surely this will be a Class Day of the real old-fashioned variety, long to be remembered by all who celebrate and reunite today as a hugely...
...Crimson and Eli Phi Beta Kappa men will seek to extend their honors to the diamond today when the honor societies of the two universities meet at Now Haven at 10 o'clock this morning. A victory by the locals will prove the lack of necessity of the compulsory athletic program to be instituted at Cambridge next year. A fortnight of successful work-outs have made the University honor men the favorites over the line representing Yale...
...congratulations cannot fail to extend, too, to the above-mentioned Pillar, which has taken its demolishment with such good grace. Has it already bounced back into place again, regardless of this Samsonian effort from across the Charles? Has it now become a chastened pillar, a sadder and wiser Transcript? We wonder. But, senatim, we congratulate our august contemporary on the magnificent burst of gratis advertising which it has received...
...voting to extend the general examination plan now used in the Division of History, Government, and Economics to other departments, the Faculty has taken an important step which, if properly carried out, should increase the interest in scholarship at Harvard. The general examination is a much more adequate gauge of a man's knowledge of his subject than a series of tests at the end of each course. The latter are specific and detailed; a student may cram his head full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate...
Undoubtedly these points are indisputable. But it must be equally evident that regulation can only extend to college activities; clubs, dances and the theatre will have lost none of their charm. The practice of holding competitions provides an automatic check on usurpation in itself; an energetic man must surely find a field for his endeavors if he cares to strive for it under the present system...