Word: key
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Every members of the University who still has clothes in the Locker Building is requested to remove them and surrender his locker key before tomorrow noon. Positively no further time will be given and all property not claimed by noon tomorrow will be stored at the owners' risk...
Many solutions have been advanced, but none has been shown entirely practicable or satisfactory. It might be that a plan adapted from the English model is the key to the situation. A rule that persons qualifying under the present regulations should complete the requirements in three years, while four-year residents should be obliged to take a degree with distinction or fail, would remove most of the difficulties, provided that degree were brought within the reach of the average man after four years' moderate work. Such an innovation would certainly tend to heighten the intellectual standard of the entire College...
...Illustrated Magazine for April is a Gymnasium number. An appeal is sounded--a very earnest and vigorous appeal: "If Harvard undergraduates will show that they want a new gymnasium, and are willing to help provide one, the graduates will to the larger rest....Let us drive the key-bolt home while it is sparkling fire!" This is the spirit of the appeal and it is addressed primarily to the undergraduate body. Will it meet with a response? Will it accomplish its purpose...
...state support. This, however, is impossible in the case of a clergyman, because a state religion is forbidden by the Constitution. The benefit which teachers derive from state support is surpassed to no small degree by their support by large endowments, and it is here that we find the key to the problem of the country churches...
...willingness to suggest his characters as they come and go, and not particularize in minute exposition. He is willing even that they disclose themselves and imply their own backgrounds. Oftener, however, the higher technique that would have saved him from some of his confusions and changes of key, for example, and that each man must learn for himself in his chosen profession, evades him, and naturally enough. Then his theatrical instinct that carries character, episode and feeling across the footlights, and his command of emotion save him. The best of the playwrights in their twenties see and feel, much more...