Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public, it brought out the fact that the strike was partly for the children's benefit. The placards which were carried in the parade were of course sentimental in the extreme, but they contained an element of truth, and also demonstrated that the children were parading for their own sake as well as their parents...
...purpose of the desired division is social. It is advocated not for the sake of innovation, but rather as a return to the life of the old Harvard, which was really a family affair in the days when it was fashionable to eat in Memorial Hall. It is hoped through the college nucleus "to draw diverse types of undergraduates together in close units of academic and social fellowship." The theory seems sound, superficially, at any rate. In the colleges which have remained small in numbers, where personal contacts and opportunities for close acquaintance are inescapable, the student bodies are well...
...been made already, and not alone in the brains of undergraduates or faculty. For years there has been a definite policy at Harvard to allow smaller colleges to exist under the university. The only novelty in the particular plan is that Harvard College itself would be divided for the sake of cultured efficiency which is perhaps a paradox, yet certainly a truth. And when the good to be gained from such division is as patent as deliberate considerations reveals this to be, the only real scruples must be those of wholly monitary nature...
...sake of many good times and many acquaintances made in conjunction with this organization, we hope that there will be interest and ability to carry on this work which has won well-deserved favor. May the Harvard Instrumental Clubs continue their work on fulfilling a popular demand for joysome music. G. E. Smith...
...cool opponent of laissez faire methods, Dr. Keppel concludes with calm insistence that he is not talking high theory; furnishes proven examples of "consecutive study for its own sake" that adults might be more generally engaged in: a course at Bryn Mawr College for working girls; the Williamstown Institute; certain mountain schools in the South; a Danish folk school in Pennsylvania; Commonwealth College (for workers) at Mena, Ark.; a foremen's course in an industrial town: a study group of business executives; reading and business executives; reading and discussion groups at Amherst College; the projected education of enlisted...