Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Student's Room. Support and Maintenance. Since 1911 there have been been two organizations, the Phillips Brooks House Association and the Students' Association, to foster extra-curricular activities in the Medical School. These have sometimes been rivals, some-times complementary and always unnecessary by one. Their activities have fluctuated like a see saw with the Phillips Brooks House Association sitting on one end and the Students Association on the other. During the last three years the Phillips Brooks House Association has steadily mounted with the Student Association dipping downward. Such was the tendency until June, 1926, (an eventful date!) when...
...Samuel Foster Damon '14 has been appointed Assistant Professor in English at Brown University, it was announced yesterday by the Brown Faculty. He will begin his duties there with the starting of the academic year in September...
...Mutual Friend", of "Dombey and Son", and the parts of "Pickwick Papers" bound. Most interesting is a travelling ink-pot engraved "From J.F. to C.D." with an autographed note by Dickens" sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth certifying that the ink-pot was given to Dickens by his biographer, Mr. Foster. This group of Dickens material was loaned by Chauncey Stillman...
...conference relations in general between the Orient and America will be discussed, and educational relations will be propounded particularly. It is the purpose of the Institute to foster better understanding between the East and the United States, and to better relations between the two continents--Some of the specific questions to be considered by the convention will be the obtaining of visas by and for foreign students wishing to enter the United States, and the regulating of the number of foreigners entering America, to study and to live...
Piano Profits. President George G. Foster's reason to American Piano Co. (Ampico, Knabe, Chickering, Mason & Hamlin) stockholders for selling $17,666,105 worth of pianos last year and making $1,775,429 profit: "The increasing demand for good music from an appreciative public, which is constantly becoming more intelligent in musical matters...