Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexico is not so well off. It needs the foreign capital which would undoubtedly follow recognition by the United States, France and Great Britain. General production remains at a low point. Radical elements are strongly entrenched in the steadily widening actives of the Labour unions and strikes have been frequent...
...shall economize space and time by stating a few facts: the editors and all the contributors to this book were members of the Poetry Society. All were editors of the "Advocate" but one, and he was a frequent contributor. Several were officers in one or other of the organizations. Is it likely that better poets were consciously omitted? when it took fifteen months to bring the volume to its final form, when every poem published by undergraduates since 1916 was examined, and when at least twelve poets and not fewer than two hundred poems were seriously considered...
...Sophomore officers have taken the best way out of the difficulty. The only solution of the problem lies in frequent informal gatherings in which foreign and local members can mingle without the feeling of being at an official established the thoughtless indifference of the traditional Harvard man will become a myth in fact as well as in name...
...that bewildered him. Other newcomers have suffered the same confusion. Years ago, there was a simple way of giving Freshmen the advice and guidance which they crave. It consisted of a series of "Letters to a Freshman", now made famous along with the fame of their author. Combined with frequent editorial exhortations from the college periodicals, no new student could escape the enlightenment that was doled...
There is, of course, a sharp distinction, to be made between scholarship and marks. One of the most frequent comments made by European professors contrasting American university education with that of England or the Continent is the overemphasis put by Americans on the importance of marks. Scholarship cannot be measured to fit into convenient pigeonholes marked A or C. The ineffectiveness of the standard is obvious under present conditions. A. D. in one course may be worth more to a man than a B in another. Raising the standard would change the hunt for "snap Cs" to one for "snap...