Word: parted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Columbia's great extension system. The step may not be taken this year or next, but eventually the university will be forced by the pressure upon it to give correspondence courses. The way, in fact, is already being smoothed. The director of the extension division devotes a good part of his annual report to combatting the popular prejudice against teaching by mail, and declares that it is quite possible for a university of the size and prestige of Columbia to carry on such work with dignity. None of the endowed universities are giving correspondence courses, but a large number...
...room is a memorial to Henry Weston Farnsworth '12 who, s a soldier of the Foreign Legion in France, was killed at Tahure in September, 1916. The donors of this new addition to the Library are his parents, William Farnsworth '77 and Mrs. Farnsworth, of Boston. The greater part of the books have been given by Mr. and Mrs. Farnsworth or by their fiends; other come from the library of Franklin Haven '57, of Boston, given to the Widener Library by his sister, Miss Mary E. Haven...
...Osborne then told how he had been appointed warden of Sing Sing and to explain the league which he had instituted there. He showed how willing the prisoner was to do his part if an opportunity was given him. To prove this he cited instances where men had gone out and led straight lives, and read extracts from several letters, of which the most significant one was the following: "You ask me how I have been doing. I should be an awful fur if I should make a promise and then break it. You never want to be untrue...
...Class desire on the part of the result of the desire on the part of the present Sophomore Class to continue the custom establishment by the Class of 1918 of presenting the University with a gift at the end of the Freshman year. At the same time, the executive board of the class wished to have the gift of such a nature that it would form a worthy precedent for other classes to continue. The sophomores were able to make this gift this year from a surplus in the class treasury after the collections had been made...
...Someone has told me that Harvard audiences have the reputation of being rather cold and indifferent, but I certainly do not think that they meant this description, because I couldn't have found even in my own part of the country, more kindly reception than was extend to me last evening. So I am mighty glad I came to Harvard, and now I can tell our people in the South that you know what hospitality means...