Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because they are obliged to do so, certain members of the department even take special pains to avoid injuring the feelings of their students. In the face of discouraging facts the instructors struggle to arouse the interest of their classes, and, strange to say, they are unbelievably successful. As proof of his assertion that the department is openly hostile, Mr. Gambet cites the placard announcing the first meeting of the course. If Mr. Gambet or anyone else can construe that simple warning as an instance of the uncompromising attitude of the German Department, he must be of an exceedingly sensitive...
...writer of the article in the "Graduates Magazine" mentioned in your editorial of this morning is, it seems to me, unacquainted with the facts in the matter whereof he treats. He accuses undergraduates of neglecting to form private libraries and cites in proof of his statement the second-hand book business about the Square. This is by no means a proof of lack of undergraduate interest in books, rather, insofar as it bears at all upon the subject, it is a tribute to the discriminating taste of the students. For, useful as the Heath series of modern language text books...
Under Professor Farlow's will, this collection, comprising about eleven thousand volumes, was given to Harvard on condition that, within three years, after the testator's death, suitable arrangements should be made for placing it in fire-proof quarters in proximity to the Farlow harbarium of cryptogamic plants, already owned by the University. These conditions have been met by the decision of the Corporation to house both the Farlow library and the herbarium in the Divinity Library building on Divinity Avenue, Cambridge...
...necessary alterations are now being made in the building and a fire-proof addition is being constructed to hold the herbarium, the money for this purpose having been given by friends of the University and of its botanical department. The Farlow library will be installed as soon as this work is done...
...reply Dr. Davison, through his institution of the Freshman Jubilee and in other ways, has encouraged rather than discouraged general singing among undergraduates, has been received here and there with incredulity. But now, in the "Harvard Song Book", compiled and published by the Glee Club, we have physical proof that the Club is not indifferent to college singing as that term has usually been understood. The critic would be bilious indeed who would not congratulate the Glee Club on its achievement...