Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these streets were very spacious, ran in right lines, and were intersepted by others at right angles. And the quays and wharves were far extended into the original waters that almost surrounded the town." Little Old New York in the early eighteen hundreds was already the forerunner of the present metropolis...
...Harvard teams will support in the Spring trip have also been determined by the Council. The most popular is the following subject: "Resolved, That modern woman is a curse." The other two subjects are: "Resolved, That 'loyalty' is the curse of the American college," and "Resolved, That the present jury system should be abolished." These subjects were chosen after much discussion on the part of the Council, which determined the subjects for all the coming debates at a recent meeting
...course of his speech mention was made of the progress in electrification made by the railroad. The lines between Philadelphia and New York are to be entirely electrified at a cost of over $100,000,000. The change from the present system to that of electrification will require six or seven years, for its completion. In carrying out this plan the railroad is looking forward to the time when the problem of providing transportation facilities will be an entirely different matter than it is at present. The electrified system will be adequate to supply New York City with transportation facilities...
...also of more comfortable dining rooms for everyone which could be supplied by their installation in any dormitories that Yale may build in the future. The establishment of the House system at Yale in the form of small quadrangles will in this respect come into violent conflict with the present social system, for the Fraternities as they now stand are, if nothing else, eating clubs. In this matter, therefore, there would have to be a definite, although difficult compromise...
...great question is, however, with all of the small details considered and finally arranged, whether a fracture of the present American educational tradition will successfully result in a more wieldy form. Much doubt has been expressed in regard to the possibility of forming small, homogeneous groups out of the large heterogeneous mass of the College. It is a question of whether or not the experiments are socially practicable. The habit of becoming segregated into small groups such as the present fraternities has become so ingrained in the make-up of the undergraduates of today that the transplantation of the English...