Word: giving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...large drill hall, devoted until recent times to training aviators. This hall contains space or a big track, a straightaway, and also for a basketball court and other gymnasium equipment. The new hall, together with the out-door board track, the baseball cage and the Schoellkopf Field will give Cornell an athletic plant equal to any other in the country...
...building the canal." Yes, and today that greatest of engineering feats is a fait accompli. This almost insuperable accomplishment is one of the great monuments of President Roosevelt's Administration and one of the least things we can do in his memory is to give the great waterway his great name...
...present plans materialize, the Hasty Pudding Club will give its annual theatrical production some time during the spring. This was decided at a meeting of the Senior members of the club last night, at which a general re-organization of the club for the coming year took place, and officers were elected...
Plans for giving students academic credit for the time spent in military service have been evolved at both Princeton and Yale. At Yale the arrangement has been to give men returning from service a third of a year's credit for satisfactory military work. This decision will enable 1919 men who left college in June of 1918 to graduate with their regular class, and those who left the year before to graduate in June of 1920. A proportionate adjustment is being made for the class...
...might be difficult to give a High School student a just appreciation of the possibilities of his subject; in college there is little excuse for not doing so. College, after all, is or ought to be the important stage of our training, the stage which, once, reached, should forbid our wasting time any further. It is not enough, then, for an institution to offer a good system of preparation. Out of fairness to both students and professors a better means should be contrived of revealing the opportunities that lie behind a prosaic statement in the catalogue...