Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part, I have many times had to realize how much of a handicap afternoon "labs" can be if one wants to enter any athletics or use the afternoon for any particular purpose. Furthermore, a person, under the present system, can be in the middle of a difficult chemistry experiment that has required much careful preparation, only to be told at five o'clock that he must leave and within about a five minute margin...
Observers of the swift-winged Hutchins rise, wondered who was behind this last, most notable flight. Undoubtedly President Angell fostered it. But who in Chicago? Because he is determinedly the University's "mystery man," it could not be told definitely how much Harold Higgins Swift, potent packer, had done or said. Many are the donations of money and ideas that come from the office in Chicago's stockyards where Mr. Swift functions as vice president of Swift & Co. and a director of Libby, McNeill & Libby. But he keeps most of his enthusiasm and efforts for the University anonymous...
...situation in regard to the H. A. A. surplus has not been much clarified by the recent statement from University Hall that the Corporation has "no intention of acquiring a ten million dollar endowment fund for the support of athletics." Out of a host of possibilities one is withdrawn. The present surplus may be allowed to accumulate to an indefinite size and for no purpose at all as far as one can tell from the Delphic utterance of the authorities...
...single door piques the curiosity in regard to all the others. In the present case, the real question hinges on what is to be done with the present H. A. A. surplus not what definite sum it is not going to be allowed to accumulate to. It is too much to hope that Harvard men will continue smilingly to pay five dollars a ticket to see football games when part of this sum is going to fill a secret chest which may be locked at the bottom of the sea for all anyone knows about it. Like...
...Harvard Business School is admittedly one of the pioneers in its field and must blaze much of its own trail. Time and opportunity to test out its methods of instruction and the material which it treats must be given to those in charge before demands are made of them for quantity production. The day will come when the Harvard Business School will have to interest itself in quantity as well as quality, but if time is given it at the start to lay a sound foundation, it will not have to fear for the quality of its instruction even though...