Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being members of that much misrepresented group of nine or ten men which informally discussed the problems confronting Harvard in its evolution from the New England college to a cosmopolitan university, learned that the first need of seekers for the truth is understanding and tolerance. We hear a lot of truisms about those words. We hear them from preachers and administrators, from Jew bailers and from sentimental philo-Semites. But they have a meaning which as Americans we have yet to penetrate. We cannot have tolerance until we recognize the real issues involved, until we perceive why social and ethnic...
...college was getting ready for a week of enjoyment in New York or Pride's Crossing, the Alumni Bulletin seized the opportunity to attack the April Recess so convincingly that we almost found ourselves agreeing with the writer. It must be admitted that the weather was bad, and a lot of men were obliged to stay in Cambridge anyway. A limited scenic tour of Virginia and Georgia is hardly an excuse for an entire week utterly wasted,--save for a few professors who, according to the Bulletin, used the time to visit New York and see some of the plays...
...true as that a coin tossed up enough, times will eventually come down heads. To make examination schedules equally attractive to everyone is obviously impossible. But the popular idea that the names of the various courses are put on individual slips of paper, and the examination dates drawn by lot in a sort of orgy in University-4, is far from the fact. The actual plan of arrangement is based on two considerations. First examinations in courses mainly for Seniors and graduate students are placed early in order that the grades may be returned, in time for Commencement. Second...
...whereas we all welcome the ardent loyalty to the home team which intercollegiate competition engenders, lot us remember that true sportsmanship involves the ability to see this same quality in one's rivals. --"The Tech...