Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place of it I would have a number of colleges, all independent, at the head of each of which should be a master--if you like, a president. Those colleges should be so limited in size that individuality would be not only possible but a necessary part of the system. The master should know every student. Instructors and students should constitute a large household under several roofs and with common grounds independence and individuality under suitable restrictions should be the underlying motive...
...voting will take place tomorrow at Sever Hall between the hours of 9 o'clock and 1 o'clock, and at Gore Hall, from 12 o'clock to 1.30 o'clock...
...seem, from the figures it can show, to be emancipation of the honors degrees, is really a narrowing device, which permits the passage of numbers that only cheapen the distinction degree. As a stricture on the fair application of the honors principle, the Junior divisional examination deserves no place in the curriculum...
...young ladies, among whom were a large number of next year's debutantes, and by twice that number of gentlemen, who were with few exceptions Freshmen. To accommodate such a throng five adjoining suits were thrown open to one another and decked with furniture suited to the occasion, in place of the more ordinary pieces, temporarily abandoned. In each room sat the mother of one of the five, behind her a white-covered, sandwich-laden table. The floor of one room was bared, while a phonograph tempted the gay company to dance...
...Taylor's place among American men of letters is all the more note-worthy because, like Francis Bacon, he took up the search for knowledge purely as a hobby after the stress of a busy life of affairs. Too many scholarly treatises read as if written from a painful sense of duty; Dr. Taylor, a former practising lawyer, writes purely for dis-interested enjoyment, yet compares favorably with his professional contemporaries both in substance and in vitality. Particularly interesting to undergraduates should be the lectures of a man who is notable for having brought a penetrating simplicity into a field...