Word: purely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From pages of drearily ponderous notes and other pages which are by the nature of the Graduates' Magazine dedicated much to bits of history and the accomplishment of Harvard men, from the latest graduate to the most ancient dead, such a voice stands out as pure gold...
...School needs a million, a couple of millions is wanted to increase equipment, material and staff for research in philosophy, political and pure science. Many salaries should be raised to keep distinguished professors at the university and deliver promising young men from the temptation of business offers far superior to their scanty pay. The library, the university press, various objects undertaken, or that ought to be $30,000,000. May Columbia get it, in large sums and in small, and on short notice! --New York Times...
...self. Dress according to your station. Second, know the thing that you are doing, and know that you know it. Third, do not burn the midnight oil. He is a blockhead who cannot do all his work in the day time. It is merely a matter of concentration, pure and simple...
...Wharton School plan seemed to be open to criticism from several points of view. As a purely undergraduate school it necessarily becomes a rival to the college and to the extent that it succeeds, it is likely to weaken the college. In the second place, it begins professional or technical work at too early a period, whereas the whole tendency of recent development in the United States is to relegate the professional or technical education to a somewhat later stage. The change that has been going on during the last few years in the Engineering Schools and other Schools...
...loans and permanent acquisitions has made the Fogg Museum doubly effective in its cultivation of the appreciation of true art. Mr. Sachs points out a field here which might well prove stimulative to more than the usual devotees of art. Too often exhibits are neglected by the students through pure inertia and ignorance...