Word: going
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...traditionally established and so many times evidenced is the odd trait of human nature which leads men to neglect wonders near at hand while they go travelling over the face of the world to view, wonders elsewhere, that there is no need to exclaim very loudly over Harvard's purpose to bring the 11,000 Harvard men of Greater Boston to Cambridge tomorrow and show them the University. Go to the House of Parliament with a Londoner and you are likely to find it as much his first visit as yours. Induce a Maine farmer to climb a well known...
...examination. An examiner, with a stop watch, presided over each group of forty or fifty. The test was divided into four parts. Each student was given at first two sharp pencils and a printed pamphlet of questions. The examiner took his stand and at a set time said "Go." Each question, or puzzle, or test--and there were hundreds of them given each person--had to be finished by the second hand and the candidate had to proceed to the next...
Accordingly President Lowell has arranged for their reception and guidance. There will be a committee at University Hall to meet the "Grads" and they will be accompanied wherever they wish. Some will go to the dormitories, others to the classrooms where the students are gathered to see "how it is done today." Still others will visit the laboratories. There will be among them some who never have been in Widener Library just because it was so close and convenient that they put off from day to day and time to time their plans to "drop out." In all departments there...
...Sheffield Scientific School will give a four years' purely scientific course in the future. Because of the changes, it is thought that the entering class in the Sheffield Scientific School will only be about 250 in number. In offering fine arts courses, its students will go to the academic department to take them, and, vice versa, the scientific courses in the academic department will be given by the Sheffield Scientific School...
...material unless more men come out within the next few days. The University runners have established a splendid cross-country record in the last decade of dual meets with Yale, losing only once in the whole period, and setting a standard that the succeeding teams will have to go far to equal...