Word: half
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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While today has not been declared a legal holiday many Boston stores and practically all business houses will observe it as such. The University has granted a half holiday, with no classes after 1 o'clock...
...were the tools endowed him by nature, with which he most efficiently carried out his fixed purpose of supporting his country in her hours of need. True patriotism is lasting, universal. Lowell's works on this, the hundredth anniversary of his birth, inspire the same feeling that they did half a century ago. What could be more expressive of the emotions of millions of people in the United States today than his famous passage: "The war was ended. I might walk townward without that aching dread of bulletins that had darkened the July sunshine and twice made the scarlet leaves...
...University Summer School will hold two sessions this year: the first from July 1 to August 9, and the second from August 11 to September 13. Most of the courses offered in the Summer School count as half courses for the degree...
...public schools in the past have been singularly outside the ken of college men, students, graduates, and professors alike, for the reason that students have come to college very largely from private schools or endowed academies. It is only recently that Harvard has, been receiving fully half her Freshmen from the free public high schools. In the state universities and those where entrance is by certificate instead of by examination, the proportion of students from the free public schools is very much greater. The result is that these schools are rapidly becoming of much more interest to college...
Approximately 36 per cent of the alumni and undergraduates of the University have been engaged actively in war work, while the service record of all college men in this country puts the number of those who took part in the war at only about 18 per cent, just half the University's record. Further statistics have been complied by the CRIMSON, which show that the men from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton served the nation equally well during the emergency, no one institution distinguishing itself above the others for its measure of sacrifice. It is evident that...