Word: means
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jayvees looked great as they left the Big Red way behind coming down the river, and if comparative results mean a thing, they would be a length or two better than Harvard's at the present time. As for a comparison between the Varsities, that is a thing that will never be answered for the two shells will clash over the four and not the two mile route when that race comes...
...fact be established between peoples free and peoples in chains? Is not the gulf too wide? . . . Intercommunication across the abyss has become almost impossible." Dictatorship and democracy literally do not speak the same language: "How, specifically, are we to discuss art with people who say 'art' and mean 'propaganda,' to whom music by Mendelssohn is not music, and poetry by Heine is not poetry, and a novel by Thomas Mann is unworthy, not because of extraneous fact wholly disassociated from all possible measures of beauty and satis faction...
Putting salt on the tail of a cosmic corpuscle which can penetrate 10 centimeters of lead is no mean feat, but Jabez C. Street, assistant professor of Physics, and Edward C. Stevenson, instructor in Physics, have succeeded in doing just that, according to announcements from Jefferson Research Laboratory...
Another way to meet the situation would be to cut down on the number of Freshmen admitted to the College in the first place. Fifty or so men lopped off each incoming class would, spread over three classes, mean one hundred fifty less for the Houses. But thus ruthlessly to reduce the number of chances for men to enjoy a Harvard education, and at the same time to take a sizable slice out of the University income, cannot be regarded as away...
...getting the short end of the rope this year, one other solution presents itself. That is to give the men not admitted to Houses the same privileges as those who are lucky enough to live in the river palaces already. This would mean that about thirty additional non-residents would use the facilities of each House. Such an increase, though perhaps tending to nullify the effort to make the Houses "individual", would not overburden the commissariat, the common rooms, or the libraries...