Word: said
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...style of examination. An examiner, with a stop watch, presided over each group of forty or fifty. The test was divided into four parts. Each student was given at first two sharp pencils and a printed pamphlet of questions. The examiner took his stand and at a set time said "Go." Each question, or puzzle, or test--and there were hundreds of them given each person--had to be finished by the second hand and the candidate had to proceed to the next...
Professor S. I. Bailey '88, acting head of the Observatory since Professor Pickering's death last February telling of the importance of the two new stars, said...
With all rooming accommodations taken, Dartmouth is still continuing the registration of the largest enrolment it has ever had. No official figures of the first day's work in entering the new men have been published, but the registration for the freshman class alone is said to far exceed any of the past few years...
...letter accepting President Lowell's invitation, Cardinal Mercier said that he would regard it as an honor to "express his gratitude to the great institution which has borne witness to its lively sympathy for the University of Louvain." This refers to the fact that the University invited certain professors from Louvain to come to teach at Cambridge shortly after their own university had been destroyed by the Germans in 1914, as well as to the share which President Lowell and other Harvard men have had more recently in the work of the International Committee for the restoration of the library...
...original mark which we set," said Mr. Wadsworth, "was $10,000,000; this amount was the estimate of the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee which was appointed in 1916. This seemed large at the time and was based upon the needs of the institution at the time for increased equipment and higher remuneration for the teaching staff. America entered the war, however, within a short time and the plans were dropped until last spring. When the Committee began work again, the first step was a full study of the University. This investigation was made by members of the Committee and graduates...