Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Enfant Plan. Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a French engineer and Revolutionary War officer, was engaged as chief city-planner. Engineer L'Enfant placed the Capitol on a low eminence ever since called "The Hill." About a mile west and north he set the President's House, connecting them with a broad avenue (Pennsylvania). From the Capitol and from the President's House (later the White House) were to radiate other avenues cutting the city's network of smaller streets. A parkway or Mall was to sweep westward from the Capitol to the Potomac. Stately public buildings were to fill...
...student whose major interest is either government or history there often appears to be a lack of instruction in contemporary questions. Such a condition is inevitable in an institution such as Harvard which limits its teaching to fields in which the material is fact and not fancy. Past experience has shown that with current events all the pertinent facts are sifted out only through the mills of time...
...team, under the tutelage of Captain F. D. Sharp, will practice the major part of the time on the new field back of the Business School; but as this field is a little under official size trips will be made to Myopia and the Forbes Field in Dedham...
...seating of the University crew, which opens the season against Massachusetts Institute of Technology Saturday, may be changed in one position before the race, according to a statement by Coach E. J. Brown '96 yesterday. Since the selection of the first crew a week ago there has been one major shift, that of Allerton Cushman '29 to No. 5 in the first boat to replace M. M. Johnson '31 who is now rowing No. 5 in the Jayvees...
...program follows: Divertimento No. 11 in D. Major Mozart Overture or Concerto No. 5 in D Major St. Martini Fugal Concerto for Flute and Oboe with accompaniment for String Orchestra Holst Music for the cinematographic film "Napoleon" Danse des Enfants Honegger Gavotte from the Pantomime "Les Petits Riens" Mozart