Word: happening
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proof; nor are they oversupplied with easy means of egress. With the Yard itself none too brilliantly lighted up at night, it is hardly more than sane precaution to do away with all needless hindrances to the quickest and safest possible escapes in a time of urgency. It may happen that the economy involved in the practice of unlighted hall-ways at night will prove penny wise but pound foolish...
...several well-known courses, however, the books which furnish most of the material for section meetings have been kept out of the Library by the professors in charge. The fact that these same professors also happen to be the editors or authors of the prescribed books, adds and interesting complication and opens up a large field for conjecture...
...these men with rooms in the buildings which they particularly cared for, their natural disappointment should not deter them from abiding by the result of the allotment. Certainly, nothing can be gained by a refusal to room in the Yard, merely because the luck of the draw did not happen to give a group the building which the members of the group specified as their choice...
...reasonable to suppose that in the near future the attendance will be largely increased. This is certain to happen if the opportunity which the course in forestry affords becomes generally known. The United States government ordinarily employs every graduate who passes the civil service examination. In addition, positions of various natures are supplied during the summer vacation between the first and second years of the course to all students who may desire them...
...that Harvard has attained a maximum as far as the number of undergraduates is concerned. In the same way that the growth of New England must henceforth be gradual, it may happen that the University must be content to develope its undergraduate department more slowly than in the past. Great educational centres are developing in the middle and far west, which seem to provide suitable opportunity for higher education in the regions where population is increasing most rapidly. On the other hand, the experience and prestige of the Harvard graduate schools leaves them almost preeminent, and as more and more...