Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sake of the lectures, especially when it is so easy to borrow a ticket. The suggested plan would bring a considerable sum of money into the Union treasury; it would enable the deserving student to listen to lectures which he could not otherwise hear; and it would extract something from the conscienceless non-member who might otherwise borrow a ticket...
...Charles Mills Gayley, an extract from whose recent book, "Idols of Education," is quoted below, is apparently a pessimist concerning conditions at American colleges. Nevertheless the following extract should interest the thinking portion of the Harvard undergraduate body...
...wines and cigars,--all to be paid for out of gate money,--these things belong with that theory of training which furnishes free automobile rides and theatre trips as a relief to the over-taxed nervous systems of the University squads." Certainly, it would do no harm if this extract were printed on small pasteboards and entrusted to the captains and managers of some of the teams about to start on a trip...
...another page in a communication is quoted an extract from the "New York Times" of recent date. In this article the conditions at Harvard are misstated. It this were merely an isolated instance of journalistic misrepresentation, it would call for no comment. However, this small news item typifies a large number of similar stories relating to Harvard in the press of the whole country. During the current year, a fiagrant instance of this sort of perversion occurred. A Cleveland paper appeared with the startling announcement that the CRIMSON had accused the football coaches of teaching the men to violate...
Through the courtesy of the "Atlantic Monthly," we are permitted to reprint the following appreciation of the personality of the late Professor William James M.'69, which is an extract from an article by Dr. James Jackson Putnam, '66 in the December number. Dr. Putnam was a classmate of Professor James at the Harvard Medical School, where he is now a professor...