Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unjustifiable slurs" of a "character assassin," Director Lilienthal defended his "yardstick," his negotiations with Commonwealth & Southern, the wisdom and economy of his power program. Of the Berry Marble Case he said: "I deny flatly that I adopted ... a position of deference to Major Berry. . . . This particular situation concerns a mere difference of opinion ... as to the course of procedure best adopted to protection . . . from the danger of a costly award...
Freshmen who have learned to speak one of these languages abroad, and who think that they will have an easy time in the field because of this, are mistaken. While there are other students who slave away trying to learn to speak a language, yet the mere ability to speak it is of little value in satisfying the grammatical and literary requirements of the field. In fact several advanced courses are given in English. But the student who is reasonably conscientious about his work will find the department easier than most...
...President Bowditch said in his report, the first ever made, that the Harvard Council was unique since it did not deal with intimate student problems nor with disciplinary relations between student and dean. Furthermore, he pointed out that its main purpose was to take undergraduate action, not to reflect mere undergraduate opinion. His conception of the Council's function was supported by its activities during that year. In comparison, President Keppel's Council, making fewer investigations yet contributing one that may prove the best of all in recent times--namely, the budgetary report, has nonetheless been marking time, while gathering...
Departing from the usual exhibits of sculpture, painting, or drawing, the Fogg Museum is displaying nearly two hundred ancient engraved gems, chosen from the collection of the great archeologist, Sir Arthur Evans. These gems are far more than mere engraved seals, they are glimpses into the ancient world, from the bull-ring of Knossos of perhaps 1500 B.C. to the veil of St. Veronica in the fourth century...
...room. The vast expanse of bare rock, which swept upward with breath-taking rapidity, was as ponderously grand as the earth itself. Crowning the cliff was an abrupt line of forest; and Vag could imagine wandering into it. Here were no scrub-by pines with long dusty-green needles--mere chaparral growth such as covered the foot--hill slopes-but high-mountain firs and redwoods, giants which had already lived through many centuries. They formed an auditorium with a roof far above supported by gigantic, perfectly shaped pillars, widely spaced so that one could see far back into the endless...