Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordained issues of politics and ecclesiastics, a necessary focal center, necessary because it provides an opportunity for arrogant partisanship and an actual uncertainty as to the outcome of a pre-arranged contest. Rarely in an era of corner-pools and Wall Street cabals can anything but a football game present Chance unhandcuffed...
Wellesley College in proved to be the temporary residence of those females who appeal the most, for the present at least, to the literary instincts of Harvard men. An average of 100, letters a day left the Cambridge station for Wellesley ladies between the hours of 9, and 3 o'clock each day. Letters which were the creations of inspirations of the twilight hour or evening left Cambridge through the central station, where their numbers could not be detected...
...other significant trend shown in the present report finds English, which has held the lead for the past six years, superseded numerically by Economics. And this is not the first time that Economics has come to the fore; previous to the ascendancy of English the Department of Economics held away during several desultory years. The movement is patently variable and the reasons for the present turn at best only hypothetical. It may be that more students are now concentrating in Economics than in English or any of the sciences because the propensities of the modern Harvard mind tend toward...
Outstanding in the report compiled by the Committee on the Choice of Electives is the fact that at the present time more Harvard undergraduates are candidates for honors than ever before. The figures also show that the trend noted several years ago, the decrease in the number of men concentrating in English and the concomitant increase in the number concentrating in Economics, has reached a significant point, Economics having replaced English at the head of the numerical scale...
...Banjo Club of the Instrumental Clubs will present the following pieces: "Under the Double Eagle", "Up the Street", and a Football Medley. The Mandolin Club will add a lighter and more classical touch with the rendering of Kreisler's "Liebesfreud" and "Narcissus...