Word: fittingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the light of President Conant's recent pioneering into new fields of educational theory, it is fitting that two educational conferences should gather at Harvard this week and next while the topics he discussed are still fresh in mind. Under the aegis of the Graduate School of Education, two...
Across the U. S., from Vermont to Utah, stretches a chain of 80-odd monuments, testimony of the rise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the East, and its long trek westward a century ago in search of religious and economic freedom. A notable marker...
Such was H. L. Mencken's first gleeful antic during the first week of the loftiest newspaper job in his career, the editorship of the staid Evening Sun. Thus was Mencken, his pale blue eyes agoggle, his single-breasted suit stretched across his bountiful belly, cocking a snook at...
The fact that Harvard has the best pool in the East as well as one of the best teams adds extra weight to undergraduate desire for making swimming a major sport here. Such equipment will never be abandoned; it should be used to full advantage. It is fitting that Harvard...
The Johnson Administration Building has been built like an expensive watch on what Architect Wright calls a "unit plan," everything fitting into a horizontal scheme of 20-ft. squares, a vertical scheme of 3½- in. brick units. The Johnson Building is the first sizable structure Wright has had a...