Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House in the city of Cambridge, a genuine need of social work that may be met in part by such college men as care to offer themselves. The confining of the direction of Brooks House policy to officers selected from among men of experience in the work, instead of from a body of undergraduates of no qualifications except success in other fields, cannot fail to benefit the external side of Brooks House activity...
Harvard yard, instead of being the dominant portion of the university layout, seems destined to occupy a secondary position. This will be heartrending to those who love to think of the yard as synonymous with the college. Possibly the alumni will protest so loudly that the authorities will listen and modify their plans. But the whole trouble--from a sentimental stand-point--is that the university has out-grown its original boundaries and is obliged to find room elsewhere...
Along with the announcement that a tower, containing memorial tablets to those who died during the World War, would be built at the side of the new chapel instead of being incorporated into it, it was stated that the whole memorial would cost $1,300,000 instead of $1,000,000 as previously estimated. About $8000,000 has now been subscribed and $500,000 more is being sought...
...Instead the report bluntly declares...
...National Congress, a gathering not of Mohammedans but of Hindus. When the matter had been thoroughly thrashed out and winnowed, last week, the Aga Khan deftly guided the Mohammedan Conference into adopting a resolution which absolutely ignored the Hindu demand upon Great Britain for ''Dominion Status." voicing instead merely the desire that Mohammedans should be accorded greater representation in the present native Assembly of the Government of India...