Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This purely mechanical feature may tend to thwart one of the fundamental purposes of the House Plan; it is apt to preclude any real possibility of a cross-section of University life...
...committee held a meeting to discuss plans for the compilation of class information. It announced that life-blanks will be sent out to all members of the Senior class in the near future. The committee requests that these blanks be filled out fully and carefully and returned to them as soon as possible in order to facilitate the gathering of material. These replies will constitute a permanent record of the class and it is urged that all members cooperate by being complete in their accounts of their college activities...
...midst of the great volume of discussions and criticism of the student apathy toward time-honored customs and activities which loomed large in the college life of earlier days, it is a little remarkable that no direct handling of the problem of what traditions might be dispensed with and what are strong enough to warrant their continuance has been tried. The custom which is losing undergraduate support has been left to a process of slow dying which is painful to many observers who cherished...
...this percentage is a little drastic to apply to Harvard. Red Books, managerships, Student Councils run on and on, and though they lack the fine flavor of campus prestige that once surrounded them, they have a harmless, and often a pleasant place, in the slowly disintegrating entity of Harvard life...
...ashore to lay her eggs along the deserted southern beaches. A timid creature, the turtle takes fright at the slightest sound or light and retreats to the ocean, to return again at some more opportune time, always under the cover of darkness. How to photograph this episode in the life cycle of the turtle presented a problem which many investigators had been obliged to give up. Repeated tests, carried out on an island off the Georgia coast, indicated that when the turtle had once begun the actual egg-laying process she became oblivious to her surroundings and it was possible...