Word: folds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...function of the Deputations, Committee is two-fold: first, contacts are made with different agencies such as churches, schools and Y. M. C. A.'s, and a schedule of trips is drawn up for the year; second, representative men in college are made acquainted with the work and opportunity is given for them to take part. Friendship is the basis of these trips, but in addition there is a view to stimulating an interest in college, all around development, and Christian living...
...Liberal Leader David Lloyd George. Wife Runciman delivered herself during her campaign of the following oracle: "I will always support David Lloyd George so long as he remains a Liberal." Her reference was, of course, to the possibility that Mr. Lloyd George might lead his Liberals into the Labor fold...
...another-had in frequent case never been exhibited before. The sitters-Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. James A. Stillman, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Mrs. W. R. Hearst, and many another such-had in most cases been flattered by their imagists. There was, however, one room which had been made into a fold for old portraits of women, by Reynolds, Romney, Stuart, West et al. The exhibit was notable for the excellent paintings which it contained; also because no art gallery has ever before held an exhibition of the portraits of Women without...
...Education suffers in America from confusion of purposes. Justified a hundred-fold in our faith in schooling as an instrument of democracy, we have cared more for the spread of education than for its fitness for specific ends. We have been interested in quantity rather than quality...
...Harvard of 1903, it certainly is not large enough for the present Harvard--enrollment has practically doubled, so has the number of graduates and the teaching staff, while the resources of the University have been multiplied five times, and the expenses of the Athletic Association have increased ten-fold; that intercollegiate athletics are now thoroughly endorsed by the Faculty; that the backbone of every endowed educational institution is its long-suffering alumni body, and that the graduates are therefore entitled to consideration; that we are lacking in generosity not only to our own graduates but to those of Yale...