Word: gap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More and more the alumni are coming to take an active hand in University life. The well-knit organization developed by the Associated Harvard Clubs and the Alumni Association throughout the country, and intensified by the Endowment Fund drive, tends to close up the gap between graduates and undergraduates which has existed more or less unconsciously in the past. The four years of undergraduate life are no longer the be-all and end-all, if ever they were. Today in graduating a man can look forward to as real a Harvard, as that he is leaving behind...
...formation of a new University Theological School in the merging of the Andover Theological Seminary and the Harvard Divinity School, announced today, finally fills a gap that threatened at one time in the last century to divide the University. In the lapse of years since then the two have worked harmoniously side by side; but it has become more and more evident, particularly since the crucible of the war, that a greater strength and usefulness could best be attained by a fusion...
...interwoven must be color and life or the events will lose their relative importance or fail to stand out at all. This side the modern historians neglect or ignore. The successors to Parkman or Prescott are-turning their attention to other fields. What comes in to fill the gap is historical fiction. An inspired novelist like Scott, building a "casing of romance upon a core of realism", as Brander Mathews remarked, with a historian's mind for detail, and the creative imagination of an artist; should be prescribed for reading in history as much s in literature. The actual order...
...then settled down to a well rowed 29 while the 1924 boat rowed at about 31. All the way down the first mile the two crews kept this distance between them with first one and then the other spurting in an endeavor to increase or close up the gap...
...leaders who have brought about this transformation,--the makers of modern Japan,--have been the Genre, the "Elder Statesmen". Few if any of them are new left, and the gap left by the death of the Empire's two greatest is almost beyond repair. General Tanaka, the logical successor to Prince Yamagata as military leader, cannot represent the Choshn clan, which has traditionally supplied leaders of the military party. Viscount Kiyoura has succeeded the late Prince as President of the Privy Council, but he can never succeed to his hold on the destinies of the nation...