Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would succeed Mr. Lowell. The next incumbent must know full well the duties of the President. Of course he can discover them in the Inaugural Address of President Eliot. Mr. Baldwin does not need to go there for any instruction. He knows his subject too well. Nothing better proves a man's knowledge of a job than his ability to prove the inability of others. Summerfield Baldwin '17 has that ability...
...mixed rots, spot rots, blood rings and moldy eggs." There was no potency in "Womanette . . . emphatically the Woman's Friend, there being no condition to which the peculiarities of her sex render her liable in which this medicine may not be taken with every assurance that it will prove beneficial"; nor to "Bowman's Abortion Remedy...
...much before he can dares teach, the teacher who has not covered a sufficient territory in the particular realm of roots is at a loss. Nor is he wanted at a university. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy has become the only criterion by which one can easily prove his knowledge of the roots--and, thus, are modern teachers made...
...Class of 1930 are now students of Harvard University. Until they prove themselves to the contrary they so remain. And there are certain definite duties of the student at Harvard, invested as he is with the freedom of Harvard. He must be a gentleman. A gentleman respects tradition. And the traditions of Harvard are quiet traditions. Nothing so bespeaks a vulgar and impoverished intellect as noise in word or action. He must be a thinking being. Nothing so departs from the norm of thinking as the quick adherence to futile and fanciful phenomena. With an open mind the member...
...dormitory, and is located on Massachusetts Avenue between Lehman Hall on the south, and Massachusetts Hall on the north. With these two buildings and Matthews, the new dormitory forms the third quadrangle along the western end of the Yard. Like Widener Library, the latest, and what is likely to prove the last dormitory built in the Yard, is given in memory of victims of the sinking of the Titanic, now more than 10 years ago. The building if the gift of three sons, Jesse Isidor Straus, Harvard '93; Percy S. Straus, Harvard '97, and Herbert N. Straus, Harvard...