Word: paralleling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Glee Club has been recently reorganized so as to represent the best musical ability in college and has cut itself loose altogether from social considerations in the selection of its members. This is a reform parallel to that which took place some years ago in the teams representing Harvard in intercollegiate athletics. Men used to be chosen for those teams not solely because of athletics ability but sometimes because they belonged to certain clubs or were otherwise socially approved...
Cars may be parked on Soldiers Field Road, beyond the automobile entrances to Soldiers Field, under the direction of the Metropolitan Park Police. Cars may also be parked on Charles River Road, parallel to the curb and headed down river...
Switzerland, in spite of conscription, is not notably militaristic--because she cannot possibly profit from a war with any of the nations she can possibly have to fight; and knows it. Does Mr. Chandler suggest a parallel...
...next Monday afternoon when he will give the first of a series of weekly lectures in French in Emerson Hall. The lecture will begin at 4.30 o'clock. Professor Levy-Bruhl's subject will be French Philosophy in the 19th century, and the whole series of lectures will roughly parallel the College course which he is to give during the first half-year under the title of Philosophy...
...building to fill the needs for which the old Hemenway Gymnasium is now too small. It is designed to have one large central room, which would contain one or two basketball courts, and would be completely equipped with gymnastic apparatus including, scaling ladders, climbing poles, horizontal bars, scaling walls, parallel bars, and leather covered horses, as well as the lighter apparatus such as bar-bells, quarter-staves, wands, dumb-bells, single sticks, and Indian clubs. Branching off from this central space are smaller rooms, which would be used for boxing, wrestling, and fencing...