Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Sweetness poured on me like this...
...collection as one without merit. A few poems shine out: "Thy Heart," by Sigourney Thayer of Amherst, "To Josiah Royce," by Brent Dow Allinson of Harvard; "The Winds of Day and Night," by Russell Lord of Cornell; "Unidentified," by Marie Louise Hersey of Radcliffe. Best of all I like "Rime of the Cross-Cut Saw," by R. S. Clark of Michigan Agricultural College. Many Harvard men after their activities of the vacation may appreciate the lines...
...situation. Princeton, for instance, will pay off part of its deficit by gifts from alumni, while Pennsylvania and Rutgers are considering co-education. Whereas one university is helped by the kindness of graduates to make good the loss, the other two plan to eliminate the cause by increasing enrolments. Like all plans, this must first be tried before its success can be determined. Radical curtailment of expenses, if that is possible, may be suitable in some cases, or increased fees in others. In every instance, however, care must be taken to avoid any decision that will discourage future undergraduates. Universities...
...provide for the American officers who desire to spend some part of their short leaves at Cambridge and Oxford. "We are proposing in Emmanuel," the letter says, "to set apart for the use of American officers six sets of rooms, and if it can be managed, we should like--and it also seems historically desirable--that Harvard men should have a first chance of coming to Emmanuel if they wish. Our population now is so much occupied with war work that service is difficult unless we are able to have a continuous stream of such officers--that...
...applications of science in the conduct of the present war. That war more than any other in history is a war between nations as a whole, and not merely between small sections of different nations. It is a war the issue of which depends on the effectiveness for war-like ends of practically every adult amongst the warring groups. Science and its applications enter deeply into almost every phase of modern industry, and as at the moment war is the greatest of all industries, science plays a leading role in the present tragdy of the world. Science itself...