Word: older
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Clubs--in all the principal cities of the United States, and in many foreign cities; and these clubs make themselves very serviceable to the home University, and to young graduates who go as strangers into communities new to them, where the immediate support of a friendly group of older residents is of real value to the newcomer...
...faculty during Mr. Snow's sophomore year. At that time there was a gymnasium, meagerly furnished, in charge of a colored man, who was looked upon with some degree of awe, for he was said to belong to the noble profession of prize fighters, and even when older was reputed to be skilfull in boxing...
...structure no exposed wood has been used. The floors are of concrete, the cases are of steel, and even tables and desks are of incombustible materials. The remaining section, including the central room of the older structure, will be raised to three stories, a basement, the ground floor, and two galleries, surrounded by steel herbarium cases, and illuminated by an overhead skylight designed to give an even distribution of light...
...Raymond, Assistant Professor of Palaeontology, accompanied by Professor Twenhofel of Kansas University, will go to Western Russia and southern Scandinava to study certain of the older sedimentary rock strata in comparison with strata of the same age in this country. Since similar types of animals are found fossilized in European and American rocks, it is possible that Professor Raymond's comparison of the strata will prove that these animals came from Russia and Scandinavia to North America...
...fund was raised principally from the members of Burr's class, but some of his older friends also contributed. The committee in charge of the project was made up of three classmates: John W. Cutler, Lawrence K. Lunt, and Nathaniel S. Simpkins...