Word: fusion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...York City, the only place where the issues involved are vital and the outcome uncertain. The eternal fight of Tammany vs. non-Tammany is more than usually complicated, with four candidates in the field, struggling for definite, specific ends, in place of the customary two. Mayor Mitchel running for Fusion, stands for unqualified patriotism, and can boast of having given New York the best administration for over a generation. Hill quit, the Socialist, possesses great mental power, but stands firmly at the head of the anti-national movement, both in theory and ideals. Hylan, a typical Tammany politician, has been...
...College is, therefore, very desirable. And so it was that the union of the Monthly and Advocate, which was so nearly successful last year, was welcomed in all serious undergraduate circles as a wise means of centralizing the interest which the College has in local literature. But the fusion lingered and failed and has not since been heard-from. The demand for consolidation, however, has not been silenced; in fact, it breaks out in undergraduate conversation at least as often as any other subject, and is treated with more warmth than most...
...isolated courses, and generally fails to note any connection between them. The new plan of examinations is devised so as to necessitate a great deal of general reading and to foster a co-ordination of related branches of study. The examinations will be set so as to insure a fusion of the knowledge derived from courses, out of which may develop a broad understanding and proper correlation of the subject as a whole. These changes in the matter of admission, oral, and general examinations are all phases of the same movement in education in which Harvard has taken the lead...