Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coordination of any structural basis would not for a moment, I fancy, be tolerated by any of our more logical neighbors across the Channel. For all that I believe our system, or lack of system, has certain great advantages. It would be a profound mistake to scrap the essentially local and individual basis of our system in favor of some uniform logical scheme...
...These, plus a Liberal Arts School, made Drake a "university." In 1882 a department of pharmacy was added. In 1887, the Iowa College of Physicians was affiliated and the next year a normal (teacher training) department was added. In 1908 a school of dentistry was obtained by absorbing another local college. In 1902 Drake paid for its borrowed Law School...
...France in the years 1918 and 1919. A special invitation to attend these services is extended to the Harvard men who participated in the Civil War, to the Shannon Post of the American Legion, to the Leslie H. Hunting Camp of the United Spanish War Veterans, and to the local posts of the Grand Army of the Republic...
This afternoon the University netmen will journey to Williamstown to engage the local representatives. The upstate six, although it has not played a great many matches this spring downed Yale 5-4 and will be sure to give Captain Whitbeck and his racquet wielders a close battle...
Harvard might conceivably exploit the idea. The attractiveness of Memorial Hall could be enhanced by casual statues of local celebreties performing their usual functions; an obelisk glorifying the American old clothes man, a genre subject portraying a Senior preparing for Divisionals, tennis racquet in one hand and theatre tickets in the other; portrait of a Freshman donning last season's white flannels for this year's Jubilees; whole flocks of pathetic sublimities are available. But there would be conscientious objectors who would remonstrate that architecture was being over-emphasized, the certain things could will be omitted from eternal memory...