Word: extended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finest tribute one university can extend another is in voluntarily subordinating its own pride of tradition in deference to what it considers a prior right. To the Indiana athletic authorities goes the credit for an action of this most graceful sort. Through their courtesy the older Crimson will appear on the field next Saturday. Indiana gains in popular acknowledgement of a thoughtful gesture, what she has willingly for saken of her own tradition. Harvard extends its admiration to a chivalrous rival...
There seem to be two functions of the present mush maligned examination system. First, to disclose the extend of the student's knowledge. Second, to make him study. In the graduate schools, where the students are more mature and experienced, the first purpose is sufficiently accomplished by one examination at the end of each course. There is no need for the second use one studies or flunks. One examination would be sufficient to disclose the knowledge of a college course too, but the stimulus of frequent examinations is felt by all perhaps erroneously to be necessary in order...
...Chairman and Secretary of the Law School Society of the Phillips Brooks House decided to extend the scope of the Phillips Brooks House Association by renewing the Legal Aid Bureau. In the spring of 1914 they secured a desk at the Prospect Union where they met clients and carried on the work of a small law office...
...Coolidge sympathetic. . . ." He estimated that the permanent anti-flood program would cost close to a half billion.* The governor and colleagues later conferred with Secretary of War Davis and chief of engineers General Hadwin. ¶Four days after Governor Martineau, along came Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania, to extend invitations for this and that and to judge for himself of Mr. Coolidge's political intentions. When he left he was saying: "Hughes . .. Hoover . . . Dawes . . . Lowden." ¶ The President kept himself busy announcing major appointments. First and foremost was his new Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight W. Morrow of Manhattan...
...rate of twelve every 50 years. But there has been talk, which had become more specific by last week, that great wharves were about to be built at Montauk Point (at the easternmost tip of Long Island) for U. S. transatlantic steamships, that the Pennsylvania R. R. was to extend its fastest service to such wharves, that U. S. transatlantic ship service would gain a day thereby...