Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...divided among three classes. About one-third are graduates of Preparatory Schools whose parents wish to give their sons a year of travel under exceptional auspices before entering college or business. About one-third are undergraduates who want to receive credits for their year's work so they will lose no time, but many ignore the question of credits, whose parents are interested more that their sons receive a broad education rather than a technical one based upon a degree. The other third are graduates, who want to take up special studies for which this trip would be especially suitable...
Integration, the end toward which the economic world is drifting, is geographically desirable in the University. That Harvard should lose itself in the flotsam and jetsam of commercial Cambridge would be a misfortune, although not an educational calamity. Some time ago, a plan was formulated to provide for the growth of the University, a plan to preserve as a physical entity the strip of territory between the business school domain on the Charles River and the graduate dominions beyond Memorial Hall...
...those facts further proof that in Americanism and Nordicism lie germs of greatness which never take on alien soil. But there is sufficient reason why at this time true pride should be expressed that in an age so mechanical as to be morose, so intricate as to lose its intrigue one human has enough of the joie de vivre to wish to risk...
Certain cynics have recently wondered just what it profits a man to lose his land for points unknown. There is, as they have so well said, the opportunity for a long walk home. But cynics are usually patrons of hearth fires where criticism, like Aristotelianism, is a thing easily possessed. Romanticism when it means the conquest of more matter by the mind and courage of man is so satisfying, so adequate that one wonders after all if at times romanticism and classicism are not two faces of a Janus who is the world...
...that are struck in the treatment is the impossibility of expecting such a frail and fallible institution as a committee of the faculty to apply a rule which in itself may be inoffensive. This, for example, worries Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard who fears that he University is going to lose its emprotorgued, awkward, loose-Haibed, ill-groomed" Abraham Lincolns...