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...matters of fact, mere question and answer, and more upon matters of opinion, a method followed for an example in the Economics department. Since so large a proportion of the undergraduate body is affected by the tutorial system, verbal reports to tutors instead of the frequent written reports might loosen a tongue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SILENT SEX | 1/3/1924 | See Source »

...most of yesterday's drill to instructing his men in batting in preparation for today's practice game with the State Street Trust Company's nine. Players have had the tendency to be too stiff at the plate and Coach Slattery is working to improve their form and to loosen up their swing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE OPPOSES TRUST COMPANY TEAM TODAY | 10/6/1921 | See Source »

...identified as the European elm bark-borer--scolytus multistriatus-marsh. In Germany it is known as the "splint kafer" and it is one of their most injurious pests. It enters the bark and the newly hatched larvae work in the splint of the live wood causing the bark to loosen and eventually fall off. Scores of trees in the Yard and about Cambridge have been examined and without exception all of them are infected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESERVATION OF YARD ELMS | 2/10/1910 | See Source »

...before the effects of the change will be fully felt. The friends of Latin, Greek and Mathematics will be sorry to see the advanced electives in these subjects slowly thin out. Harvard is already accused of perverting and vitiating the degree of Bachelor of Arts; and we should be loosen to lose the advantage we now hold of offering advanced specialized instruction in Classics and Mathematics superior to that of any other college in America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/14/1884 | See Source »

...means of diluting the stuff, however, he is obliged to use it full strength, at the risk of actually becoming robust. In dining, when excessively hungry, he has been known to look at a lily in a glass of water for fully five minutes, and then waddle away and loosen his waistcoat. But such gluttony is very rare with the great aesthete, and ordinarily a hasty glance at a photograph of a sandwich is all he feels warranted in taking. By the exercise of constant care he thus avoids overloading the stomach. The great man will lecture through the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW OSCAR WILDE IS PHOTOGRAPHED OUT WEST. | 3/3/1882 | See Source »

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