Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college yard and the University owned property near the Charles are at present being carefully surveyed by men working under the direction of the Treasurer's Office. According to the workmen, the survey is being taken in compliance with an old custom which required a survey of the property to be taken every few years in order to show the change that had taken place in the yard. The last of these surveys however, was made...
...certain mystery surrounds the present work which is being done. Authorative information is not available in University circles. It is thought that the survey has a direct connection with the House Plan building program, but nothing definite in this direction could be learned...
...Marriage conditions are among the most unusual features of the tribal life. All a man has to do to obtain a wife is to present her parents with enough goats. The number of his wives is limited only by his wealth; most of the negroes have three or four, while the richest may have as many as 500. On the other hand, divorce is just as easy as marriage; if the woman is dissatisfied, she simply leaves her husband and returns home without ceremony, if she gives her former mate the sum paid...
There are at present many courses such as French 2, German A, la, and lb that are painfully dull and distasteful chiefly because of their elementary nature, but also as a result of the abridged text-books used. In the United States there has recently begun a movement to improve these educational editions for which the modern language department presents the most pertinent demands. As it is now, the books used create little but a dislike for foreign literature; whereas, if they were exchanged for complete editions, reading them would at least satisfy the curiosity of those who feel...
...books in their entirely were substituted for the present garbled productions, the time spent in reading them would at least give the reader some idea of the abilities of the author. Instructors in these elementary courses have admitted that the texts now used destroy the structure of the original work and leave but a residue of words that serve for little more than a memory exercise...