Word: manifolded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little effort to need an exhortation. Life is so complex in its personal, social, public and international relations, it has so many facets, refracts the light in so many different ways, that it is very difficult to see aright, or to take into account in due proportion all the manifold elements it contains...
Behind the Woolley-Baker controversy lay much rancor not generally known to the public. A section of Yale graduates has viewed with growing alarm the tendency, since 1920, to reorganize Yale out of all recognition, and the unfairly large burden assumed in the process by Mr. Harkness through his manifold benefactions to his alma mater. The sons of Eli are a stiff-necked breed and there are many who feel that for Yale to be rebuilt, reorganized and replenished by the devotion of any single graduate is unnecessary and undignified...
...personal contact with teachers, it is a fact that not a few undergraduates make friends among their instructors and go to them for advice on many things besides studies. . . . Professors, after all, are human beings, whose capacities for friendship are not entirely destroyed by the exacting nature of their manifold duties, and the student who goes through college without knowing some of them outside the classroom is, I am sure, exceptional...
...this excellent institution for no very obvious reason, lapsed into discard? Such an organization performs manifold services. For developing ability in clear and forceful expression, it has no rival. It would be useful as a clearing-house of undergraduate and graduate, even faculty, opinion. But principally the value of this sort of organization lies in forcing young men to think about the problems they will soon, be called on to face. In the Oxford Union the great issues of the nineteenth century were first tussled over. The Debating Union can fulfill a real function; as a center of learning...
Whatever may be the aspirations of the Planning Committee, future physical expansion of the University is sure to be conducted under manifold difficulties. That there is a purely business group of men actively engaged in dealing with real estate in the path of expansion was disclosed as the result of further investigations yesterday into the projected construction of a hotel at Mt. Auburn and Dunster Streets...