Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experience, and against well-bred rowing systems: most of our men are inexperienced, and our coaching system is as yet untried. Usually at these meetings the captain talks about beating Yale. But the Yale race is a long way off. That is not the important thing at present. The main thing needed now at the establishment of a new system, is confidence and a spirit of cooperation, and I am sure you have both...
...Nine acres of that land was bought by the people of Massachusetts in 1920, for $20,000, to become a War Memorial; and the tenth acre was given by the adjacent community of St. Mihiel. . . . The Sacred Rocks of St. Mihiel overlook that land. Moreover it is on the main highway between St. Mihiel and Verdun. . . ." Thus cried Representative Slater Washburn of Worcester in the State Legislature of Massachusetts last week, and went on to explain himself as follows...
Sirs: In TIME, Jan. 10, appears an article relative to the great calamity which befell this institution on Sunday morning, Jan. 9, when fire entirely destroyed Main Hall, our oldest and best-known dormitory. In the article you make the following statement...
...will readily understand that under the conditions, when we must go to our friends and the public for financial support in order to rebuild Main Hall; it is a serious matter to us to give out the impression that our loss is entirely covered by insurance. May I ask, therefore, that you kindly correct this error in your next issue? If you will oblige us by granting this request and place your correction in a prominent position in your magazine so that it will be noticed and read by most of your readers we shall greatly appreciate...
...future only those students whose natural bent inclines them to the special field will elect that field, which is as it should be. Incidently the whole approach to Literature is placed on a broader basis. Another very healthy and hopeful sign in the new plan is that the main emphasis is laid on the student's showing in the examinations written and oral and no longer on the mere accumulation of honor grades in courses...