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Word: favorable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, the library is heavily biased in favor of the graduate student. And this bias springs from only one thing: Widener's tremendous size. It is this great hulk that is stifling to undergraduates. Among the four million volumes which comprise the Harvard Library, only one hundred thousand books interest them. Yet these very books in demand are hidden away among innumerable tomes which contain the last printed word on any subject. Graduate students have access to the book stacks; they have stalls placed right where the books they need are shelved; now there is even a bathroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY: PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Coughlin of the Record: "Dartmouth, 20-7; Hutchinson will help roll up the score. A wet field will favor Dartmouth's power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Game Predictions by Local Sports Experts | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...Odds Favor Dartmouth...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Crimson Squad Set to Meet Fierce Indian Onslaught; Dinner Heralds Forty-Sixth Meeting of Two Teams | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...comic-strip may seem a bit too close to the odor of the breakfast table to be worth serious consideration. The reader who finds a vicarious thrill in pouncing upon "Terry and the Pirates" each morning is apt to overlook the genuine skill of the artist, Milt Caniff, in favor of a few well-turned curves on the body of the Dragon Lady. Each section of Canift's daily feature contains a carefully planned composition, both in regard to figure placement and value rendition. His work is characterized by the decisive manner in which he manipulates lights and darks...

Author: By Jack Wiiner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

While the Plan's anonymous financial angels thus have reason to rejoice, mere appointments are not sufficient to insure the Plan's success. In the undergraduate mind the Plan is still associated with the notion of "study" which the Bliss examinations represented. Although these have happily been abolished in favor of short essays for the same appealing prizes, it remains for the Chairman and the counselors to "sell" Harvard on the American Civilization idea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAY THE ANGELS SING | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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