Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Southard '97 gives a brief notice of Walter Remsen Brinckerhoff, and President Eliot writes on the Harvard Medical School in China, giving an appalling picture of the conditions that prevail in China in the care of health, and pointing out the great good the school...
...accepted the American teams will combine together against the English teams. In previous years the English system of scoring has been adopted, by which only first places are counted. Nine events were held instead of the 13 customary in this country. It is probable that the same conditions will prevail again this year...
...custom shall prevail...
...close of his term of office, send to all members of his class who have paid aught into the treasury a statement of income and outgo. Whether this be justifiable on one ground or another is quite immaterial; the fact that such loose methods, such secrecy, as now prevail, exist and continue merely by the acquiescence of the classes in "things as they are," is reason for a new system which shall be at once more sound and more democratic...
...have, I am sure, enough evidences of the evils of petty jealousies, and inane controversies concerning the different relationships that prevail at Harvard, without having an undergraduate trample the name of a Harvard institution in the dirt before the Boston public. Whether his statements are true or not, is not the question. But it rather seems to me that the general good of the University and the worthiness of its name should be more earnestly protected by all its members than to allow such an undignified statement to be made about any of its institutions. This is especially true...