Word: like
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this there will be an exhibition in the new buildings, showing the progress in sciences and applied arts during the past fifty years. An unusual feature will be the demonstration of the great number of branches of science and applied knowledge necessary for the completion of a huge undertaking like a modern skyscraper or battleship. There will be diagrams showing the technical knowledge necessary for the construction of each part. Early models of the telephone, telegraph, and other important inventions will be shown, and with each will be given the part played by Technology in its perfection...
...Advocate appears cheerily in its thousandth-or-so-number, with its scanty editorials, like the inadequate short skirts of a growing girl; its verses, its tales and its one page of "solid article." Here the reader catches a whiff of the Ladies' Home Journal; there he finds a hint for those short pages of the Century where the verse is tucked in; but few suggestions of the Advocate in the days when it was only the Harvard Advocate...
...Biggers's "Next to Advertising" would be a feature. It is an amusing skit drawn with brilliant chalks. H. E. Porter's "Same Old Christmas Story" is the same old Christmas story. Noble graduate of 1907, with a bank account, a tender heart and too much leisure. It reads like that story of Bunner's, where the brave little boy sells the gold brick to a kind old gentleman, and thus provides a Christmas for the family of the unsuccessful bunco steerer...
...been said of the study of economics, in contrast to the physical sciences, that like philosophy it deals with theory, more or less pedantic, which cannot be put to practical use by the student during the period consumed in its study. The research work of late years exposes the inaccuracy of such a statement. That Harvard has not taken a wholly active part in this field of experiment is due to limited facilities, not to any absence of problems which might be solved...
There are not many precedents where Union membership is compulsory for the reason that not many universities have like institutions. At Brown University, and at Michigan, however, the fees are much lower, being $4.00 and $3.00 respectively. Of course the problem of these institutions are hardly comparable to those of the Harvard Union. The Agassiz House in Radcliffe College does not furnish nearly as many attractions as does the Harvard Union, yet compulsory membership is in operation there. It is also to be remembered that in many colleges everyone is taxed an Athletic Association fee for the support of athletics...