Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Philosophical Society. Perhaps you would wish to correct it. What I really said was this: "In the face of great apparent prosperity, higher education in this country ... is gravely menaced by the difficulty?approaching impossibility?of recruiting an adequate amount of first rate intellectual ability to carry forward this great enterprise." I am sure you will agree that you attribute a very different statement to me. JAMES R. ANGELL...
...prominent graduate, already a heavy donor, has come forward with an additional offer if four men in a certain sector of the country will give just twice as much. This would assure the quota set by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fund being now one hundred thousand dollars shy. To increase the sporting chance the latest challenge has been hurled directly in the teeth of New England. Her reputation for open-handed giving and largesse is at stake and ninety thousand dollars has been set as its proof. A new zest has been added to what must have become a palling...
...buildings, as a whole, are planned to further at every point the distinctive program which the School has adopted. There are a few large lecture rooms and a great many seminar rooms and offices. To help carry out the School's intention to forward graduate study and research, the library is planned for 250,000 volumes as contrasted with the 80,000 we now possess. The presence of the Sterling Memorial Library in the immediate vicinity of the School will aid in furthering research. The Yale Law Journal, which publishes much of the research done at Yale, will have commodious...
...moment of silence--then the crowd realized what this misshapen form had done. The fist marshall of the class jumped forward, Come on now, fellows, a long cheer for Hollisheimer...
Finally as the old Harvard cheer with nine Hollisheimer on the end rent the air, forward stepped the President of the University who threw his doctor's robe over something of what had been Appleby to signify that-the last of the Hollisheimer had attained his degree...