Word: procession
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...soon as possible, and already the work of transference to other buildings is well under way. The regular service of the Library will be continued with as little interruption as may be; but under the extreme difficulties of administration attending, some irregularity must be expected. Books are already in process of transfer to Massachusetts Hall, Emerson Hall, Robinson Hall, Fogg Art Museum, Divinity School Library, Peabody Museum, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Andover-Harvard Library, and Randall Hall. Eventually the greater part of the Library's collections will find a place in Randall Hall. For the present the arrangements will...
...must all commentators scrupulously overlook the glaring fact that undergraduates from public schools are intellectually a picked lot, and that undergraduates from private schools have been subject to no selective process whatever? A small proportion of grammar school boys go on to high school. A majority of those who take this step are better equipped intellectually than those who do not. Again, among high school graduates, only a fraction (large or small) go on to college. Here too the little band that progresses includes the intellectually foremost. The result is that those high school graduates who get John Harvard...
...private school graduates; in sharp contrast, have never gone through any sifting process. Of course they have been subject to examinations like all schoolboys everywhere; but in their case no process of gradual selection has been at work to produce the intellectually fit. The boys go to school at 12 or 14 years of age because their parents want them to and can afford to send them; and for like reasons 90 per cent of the same boys go to college...
...second group honors, whereas a small percentage of private school men are similarly honored," and we believe the argument advanced by him is a logical one that "undergraduates from public schools are intellectually a picked lot, and the undergraduates from private schools have been subject to no selective process...
...management for the exclusive use of the tank for one hour on three afternoons a week, and the tanks in Westmorly and Dunster were secured also for use in practice. Inasmuch as the season was already far advanced, the first two weeks were devoted to a process of elimination and the squad was reduced to a size that could be handled. Only 25 men were retained, and many men were cut who would undoubtedly have developed into first class material in a longer season...