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...achieve his end President Lowell laid well-marked paths through the maze of Harvard's free elective system. He introduced tutors and comprehensive examinations. He drew freshmen from their scattered lodgings into the communal life of Georgian dormitories near the Charles River. Finally in 1928 a gift of $13,000,000 from Edward Stephen Harkness allowed him to fulfill a longtime dream. By splitting his unwieldy body of upperclassmen into seven residential Houses he hoped to restore the fellowship of student and student, student and teacher, which small, oldtime Harvard had possessed...
...night club by any means. Closes at tea-time. Rather bookish crowd. Rotten service, you usually wait an hour for what there is. No music, no rough-house. Drinking is frowned on, despite precious collection of 16th Century wine-cards. Ask to see the labyrinthine maze which lies behind the famous Grand Staircase...
Gingerly the corps of correspondents, none of them chemists, followed Judas Strasser through a maze of chemical apparatus...
...calm the anxious breast or still the palpitations of the fearful heart. Paris rose into the frenzy of Gallic jitters while Italy was officially shocked and Great Britain did its best to ignore the alarum. Dollfuss's Austria feverishly hastened its process of covering the northern border with a maze of barbed-wire, and Russian wondered whether she would be squeezed between the two outlaws, Germany and Japan...
...model ceremony. It is quite possible that this nomenclature may precipitate a flurry of sociable controversy. How, for example, is one to state whether the lefthanded keeper of the keys is to be Mr. Endicott, Mr. Saeger, or, to proceed, Mr. Westcott? And who, pray, in the Widener terminological maze would forfeit his mellifluous title for the Charter and Seal...