Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permit Freshmen to be molested is due most of its value. To the fact that at present Freshmen are frequently approached is due a large part of its failure. A healthy indifference to clubs cannot be maintained unless the individual is allowed for at least one year to orient and balance his life uninfluenced by organized factions or types. The underhand advantage of canvassing students before the opening of their sophomore year practiced by a number of clubs, usually final clubs, tends toward the destruction of the club agreement and the less of the main advantage of the Harvard club...
...vagueness of style and the faults of proof reading which are concomitant with the advent of the college year, the editorial attempted in a certain direct fashion to suggest that too little was done by those who had been some time at Harvard and in Cambridge to help orient the first-year graduate student who comes here from a distant college or university. It was suggested that the CRIMSON had some definite plans for assisting in that work, but, more to the point at this time, it was also suggested that efficient organizations of Harvard graduates, endowed with some knowledge...
...theoretical despot, technically absolute, actually impotent, arrived at Paris last week, swathed in billowy garments, bedecked with Orient gems, surrounded by 100 six-foot Negro guards, by many a caid and pasha...
TIME moves rapidly everywhere but in the Orient. For that reason it is this many months late that I am able to reply to an article under RELIGION which appeared in TIME...
That left the Dollars as ship owners competing with themselves as ship operators for the Government (the Admiral-Orient Line), another situation which they did not like, even though the operating losses of the Admiral-Orient Line cost them not a cent. Nevertheless the Dollars wanted to own the boats, offered last fall $600,000 for each of the five (they cost $6,000,000 each when built during the War). They were rebuffed. So they raised their offer to $900,000 a ship, a sum pleasing to the Board, which accepted a deposit...