Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a college ruling against keeping dogs in dormitory rooms, and by a devious process J. Leslie was ruled, because of his size and biting ability, to be equivalent to a dog. Many Freshmen sympathize with the owners in their loss, but the proctors pity only the goodies...
...already had pretty definite ideas about education, my dear Usbek, I think this last discovery would have suggested them to my mind. Education is something to be acquired. It is not a product--but a process--a process of continuous and complete development which has no end. It is like the budding of a plant. The motive force must come from within. It is a mistake to say, as they are saying here at Dravrah that they are educating men. They are not, and never will. All they can do here is to offer facilities for use. Education is always...
...Sixth. He has set himself resolutely to solve the housing problem and made that one of his major policies. His success is evidenced by the construction of three Freshman Dormitories, with one more in process, the purchase of many privately owned dormitories, including the so-called "Gold Coast," the construction of additional dormitories and provision for other dormitory facilities in the Yard, the movement now on foot to secure a Medical School dormitory, and the prospect of early construction of adequate dormitory facilities for the Business School, for which funds have been raised and plans approved...
...decommunizing process was unquestionably designed to throw the country open to domestic and foreign enterprise, but it had small chance of success with Zinoviev riding the Third Internationale at a gallop. Christian Rakovsky, Chargé d'Affaires at London, and Leonid Krassin, Ambassador at Paris,* had both complained bitterly about having their every project and diplomatic advance stampeded by Zinoviev and his wild...
...except in a very civilized community. The man who studies history studies nothing else at Oxford. It is assumed that his public school has given him an education sufficiently broad to permit him to follow out his own interests, and that his conversation with his fellows will complete the process. The student of history will read his Jane Austen like any other educated man, and will not need English 29 to encourage him to do so. But in many colleges this assumption is untrue. One of the best of Oxford colleges has recently instituted a system of general essays...