Word: particular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast the margin of victory in favor of the outsiders. Unexpected Indian performances, cutting into the total of Cornell points, coupled with unforseen exhibitions by unheralded Harvard athletes may well give the University the edge necessary for a fifth victory. Upsets in the mile and two mile events in particular will change the entire aspect of the meet...
...gift of this large sum of money is an example of the present tendency of generous benefactors definitely to stipulate for what particular purposes this money is to be used. One recalls the recent donations to Vassar, the University of Michigan, and, overtopping them all in generosity, that of eleven million dollars to Harvard University to establish the House Plan. Evidently such restrictive stipulations may be considered by some, as President Little in the case of the stipulated donation to the University of Michigan, unnecessarily to hamper the authorities in attaining the general objective with the best possible results...
...time immediately following graduation is probably at once the most decisive period in the life of the college graduate and at the same time the one most subject to purely fortuitous influences. Any arrangement to help undergraduates prepare for the transition would be welcomed, and in particular such a one as in the present instance, where the individual's interests coincide so directly with those of the prospective employer. To be sure, only a very small fraction of even the leading contestants can expect to benefit in so direct a way, but the experiment is in the right direction...
...this resolution the Council of the League was requested to convene a committee of experts representing the main forms of civilization and the principal legal systems of the world, which should have the duty, without trespassing in any way upon the official initiative which may have been taken by particular states...
...following lectures should be of particular interest today...