Word: offing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Feeling that in the past this country has neglected this most important branch of the Government, and that improvement is necessary to bring the service into accord with the dignity of our position in international affairs, the American Manufacturers' Export Association recently passed a resolution urging upon Congress the necessity...
After years of "shirtsleeve diplomacy" and ambassadorial mediocrity, such improvements as are indicated by the exporters must make a strong appeal to the reason of every college man and every American who holds at heart the prestige of his country among the nations of the world.
For the benefit of those students who are remaining in Cambridge during the Christmas recess, the Phillips Brooks House will be open daily except Sundays from 8 to 5. All men in the University are cordially invited to make use of the House.
Papers in many places comment editorially upon the analysis of scholarship at Harvard just made public in the Harvard Graduates Magazine. The investigation covered the college records of 4000 students who qualified as freshmen during the years 1902 to 1912 inclusive, and yielded these results: That 17.7 per cent. of...
The chief deduction, however, is that the private schools offer superior training for a definite goal, they coach the boys for the "exams" upon which depend their entrance to the college of their choice, while the public schools train their students for general efficiency in life. The report is a...