Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suppose that the Emperor Napoleon- had fled to the U. S., instead of surrendering to Britons. How much would that have changed the history of the world...
...recent issue of the Yale News announces that a series of six lectures sponsored by the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity at Yale will be delivered by certain professors as a proposed step toward making fraternities useful to all instead of only a few undergraduates. The plan is to further the prevalent tendency toward the "open house" system and the divorce of fraternities from their former mystically tomblike atmosphere by bringing all undergraduates together in an understanding of "Undergraduate Problems", the general topic of the series...
Each boy's chart becomes a minute cumulative biography, recording calendar years instead of only school years. Tiny tragedies, failures, successes are noted by terse, keen recording angels with a flair for cross-reference. Tendencies lurking secretly behind chance acts are revealed. The Hill is thus gently turning to scrupulous study of the individual boy. It can advise and knows how best to phrase its advice. It knows too when certain students for one or another reason will find only unhappiness or failure in the looming college years...
...There is another great revolution," said Mr. Gannett, "coming in the printing industry, although it may be five or ten years before it is perfected. That is the use of photo-composing instead of metal composing. Instead of producing a column of metal type, we will have a machine which produces a strip of film. The offset process will have to be used instead of the present relief process. The Eastman Kodak Co. is one of the concerns interested in abolishing the present costly and wasteful system of printing...
...Back Bay came to Harvard on Saturday afternoon, and the much-sought Freshman stags were hosts instead of guests...