Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this is beside the point. Go forth, Seniors, and celebrate once more in the room where you were welcomed as Freshmen, where you dined as Sophomores, and where you danced as Juniors...
Would not converting the fortnightly conferences into a compulsory course with a half-point credit for a year's work solve the problem? The plan should certainly be continued as it is most beneficial in linking up a student's single courses and in filling up the gaps in his chosen period. The realization of the fact that he was being closely marked on his work and that he was gaining credit for his efforts would make the average student apply himself to his tutorial conferences. Debates at conferences between students or written essays and reports upon the assigned work...
After two years of rapid growth, the Business School Laboratory under the direction of Walter M. Stone '08 has reached a high point of development. This unique institution, whose counter-part exists nowhere in the country, is run in connection with a course in "Office Organization" as part of the School of Business Administration. It is located on the top floor of Lawrence Hall, with an additional room in Randall Hall. From a very small start, the laboratory now possesses over $25,000 worth of apparatus, which includes a single tabulating machine valued...
...nation, we are often criticized by Europeans, for a sordid sameness of life and institutions. Our cities, they point out, present the same square uninteresting outlines; the talk, in our homes, runs along the same tract of mediocre intellectuality; our youths and men are all alike even down to their gestures and vocabulary. Where, they ask, are our great scientists and statesmen...
...race. In the contest, fliers from ten colleges of this country will be entered. G. Crompton '20 will pilot the University airship, and will be accompanied by several other members of the Aeronautical Society. The balloons will start from Akron, Ohio, and the crew which reaches the point farthest from the city will be chosen as the intercollegiate representative in the great national race to be held at St. Louis this summer...