Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part, I have many times had to realize how much of a handicap afternoon "labs" can be if one wants to enter any athletics or use the afternoon for any particular purpose. Furthermore, a person, under the present system, can be in the middle of a difficult chemistry experiment that has required much careful preparation, only to be told at five o'clock that he must leave and within about a five minute margin...
...learn of all the important privileges attached to the office of Vice President. Holders of this position in recent years have come into fame in considerable measure because of their colorful language and their discovery that "what this country needs is a good five cent cigar." If the present incident indicates the social prerogatives of this second highest honor of our democracy, it also shows that in the land of equal opportunity where any native may aspire to the Presidency, none but the legal spouse of the Vice President can enjoy undisputed the honor accorded his wife by a loving...
Denials make poor reading and worse information; a sweeping denial, it is true, may close discussion on a subject, but the mere bolting of a single door piques the curiosity in regard to all the others. In the present case, the real question hinges on what is to be done with the present H. A. A. surplus not what definite sum it is not going to be allowed to accumulate to. It is too much to hope that Harvard men will continue smilingly to pay five dollars a ticket to see football games when part of this sum is going...
With the large number of applications for next year's class coming in, Business School authorities have urged that Harvard College Seniors intending to enroll should file their applications immediately. It is also expected that, due to the number of applicants, admission requirements may be made more strict. At present, the rules for admission require only that the applicant have a "degree from an approved college and a general record satisfactory to the Business School...
...Business School seems to be following the course of wisdom in limiting the number of the entering class for next year. Of course the present size of the facilities across the river directly necessitated the decision but there are other considerations which might well impose restriction on too rapid growth. Sound growth takes time as well as careful direction and the business of assembling a faculty of capable men cannot be carried out in a year or two. There must be time for seasoning and the consolidation of present gains before a program of continuous expansion may be looked...