Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least being in at the death, advisable in the particular instance. Now there is nothing more difficult to obtain than helpful and intelligent criticism from those who are at the moment enmeshed in their own personal problems. Nevertheless students who have genuinely constructive opinions concerning their courses and who possess Platonic idealism which allows them to look upon the turmoil with some idea of objectivity, should not hesitate to proffer their views. Every undergraduate is, unfortunately, troubled with a certain inferiority complex in the question of pedagogy--pedagogy both theoretical and practical. In the matter under discussion, however, which tests...
...technical perfection desired in a jazz band, then at least two and perhaps four more are required to cultivate the delicate social graces which should accompany the deft xylophonist. No xylophonist can hope to get away merely on the strength of his ability at his instrument: he must possess savoir-faire elan and also some gift for intelligent repartee...
...secure signatures to an anti-third term petition. Of the many signing, said Mr. O'Shea, one was State Senator Calvin Coolidge. Mr. O'Shea added that the signatures were made in duplicate, that one copy went to Washington, that he retained the other. Thus he claimed to possess President Coolidge's signature to a no-third-term manifesto, said he would produce it "at the proper time...
...results of these investigations encourage the belief that there are now available materials for glazing our windows which do not possess the fault of window glass in excluding the health-giving rays of sunlight. A comparatively small amount of exposure to sunlight, even during the winter months, at the latitude of Boston has a decidedly beneficial effect...
...School has adopted. There are a few large lecture rooms and a great many seminar rooms and offices. To help carry out the School's intention to forward graduate study and research, the library is planned for 250,000 volumes as contrasted with the 80,000 we now possess. The presence of the Sterling Memorial Library in the immediate vicinity of the School will aid in furthering research. The Yale Law Journal, which publishes much of the research done at Yale, will have commodious quarters on the library floor. That floor will also contain a reading room for the entire...