Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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John Harvard, almost three hundred years ago, made it possible to found education in America. Today, someone is needed to found an education in international understanding. The spirit of Mr. Choate's work can be perpetuated in no better manner than by bringing together, in any way possible the students of new Cambridge and old Cambridge...
...Holder of the degree of B.A. of not more than three years' standing from the trade of taking his degree: (2) a matriculated undergraduate of net more than three years' standing from the date of his matriculation. Appointments to the Fellowship will be made each year in the usual manner of such appointments at the University, following the nomination and recommendation of the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, England, Failing a candidate from Cambridge, the Vice-Chancellor may select a candidate from any other university in the United Kingdom. A provision is made that the same person may hold the Fellowship...
...some and bore others; rows of long wooden tables; plates of cheese and pretzels, movies in which Douglas Fairbanks will climb all ever the wrinkled sheet hung at the end of the Living Room, and the inevitable speeches. It is altogether fitting that the Seniors should celebrate in the manner of their pre-war Freshman and Sophomore years the last evening before they conceal their physical eccentricities and their precarious relations with the College Office beneath caps and gowns...
...clothing which has been gathered will be distributed in the following manner; one case to the Italian War Relief Fund of America; one case to the Y. M. C. A. for the relief of destitute students in Switzerland; and the balance to The Cambridge Red Cross for shipment overseas. All of the military equipment will to turned over to the Morgan Memorial Institute, a large social service institution in Boston, which has offered to make over the uniforms into ordinary wearing apparel. The text-books will be placed in the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library, while the fiction works...
...hardly seems that the problem can be solved in such a simple manner. The undergraduate is a stubborn brute--with a little clever manipulation you can lead him anywhere you will but it is an almost impossible task to drive him with a whip. And this it seems to me, is what they are attempting at New Haven. There is but one way to make the undergraduate pay more attention to his books. That is, to increase his desire to learn; stimulate his curiosity and his ambition and make him conscious of his mental inferiority. Why do undergraduates slave...