Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wide field of distribution from its members. The attempt is being made to produce architects who will know better than to design a skyscraper of beautiful proportions, with nothing but a medieval spiral staircase to the top floor; and who may, nevertheless have a knowledge of architectural types prior to the Victorian era. With similar intent, a solid background of literature and history is required of all students concentrating in Fine Arts...
...summary: HARVARD 2ND ANDOVER. Palmer Whittall, l.w. r.w., Rogers, Brewer Reid, c. c., Failing Peirson, r.w. l.w., Knight Nichols, l.d. r.d., Quarrier, Brown Bohlen, r.d. l.d., Ellison Dole, g. g., Prior...
...mean that mentally the "New Immigration" was inferior, or that the standards of living of the immigrants belonging to this category was inferior? Though I agree that the mentally defected are undesirable and should be kept out, yet I contend that the average immigrant, who came to our shores prior to the adoption of the immigration limitation law of 1921, was no other than the friend, or the relative of the immigrant who came here by steerage passage before 1880. The "new" immigrant, since he is so closely related to the "old" immigrant, is capable of the same achievements...
...number of tickets to which he is entitled, allowing for his own personal use a ridiculously small number, and I know of no one who gets tickets just because he "knows" Mr. Moore. Time and time again have I seen him draw from his own allotment of personal tickets prior to a game and give them to a member of the Board of Overseers who hasn't had any, but yet who has done some great work for Harvard. His tickets have gone mostly to Harvard backers and not to personal friends...
...years prior to the passage of the Transportation Act, every tendency had been toward Government ownership or operation. The experiment during the war resulted in a sharp reaction in favor of private operation which was general, except on the part of railroad employees who believed that they would continue to benefit under Government control. The Transportation Act, therefore, with all its restrictions, was the foundation upon which private management was given a new opportunity. If this Act cannot be altered without a radical change in the general policies which it established, it is far better to leave it alone...