Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seem an anomalous thing to say that the true scholar is out of place in our institutions of higher learning, but such is very frequently the case. Ever since the word went out that a college diploma was the only possible pass-key to wealth, wisdom, and social success, the rush of students coming to college for irrelevant reasons has threatened to swamp the true scholar. In 1895, the enrollment in American colleges was 45,000. At present it is well over 500,000. Some of the new arrivals came to snatch the technical training which would enable them...
...imported, and are on the books only to throw dust in the farmers' eyes, the chief center of attack on the new tariff is in the international complications arising from it. With Europe in debt to the United States to the extent of many billion dollars it would not seem to require Economics A in order to realize the need of an American market for European goods. Whatever other intelligent way is there to move such huge sums across the Atlantic? Certainly to continue to drain Europe of gold is a policy that more resembles the activity of a Cortez...
...prospective plan was offered for the inspection of interested persons, but since then much more definite plans have been drawn which have not been made public. That these drawings must contain much that would be generally interesting and enlightening is not to be doubted. Practical considerations also would seem to dictate that those directly responsible should take the rest of Harvard into their confidence if only as a sop to that militant class of persons who enjoy the making of caustic post facto comments when they feel that they have been denied an even passive participation in the proceedings...
...convincing fashion that within a week or so of the opening of practice, he found himself firmly entrenched on the first team, a position from which no one has succeeded in ousting him to date. As time goes on the chances of any such event's happening seem to be getting slimmer and slimmer, and barring injury there are few who doubt that the opening line-up against Yale next month will include Ticknor at one guard and Trainer at the other. There is not another position on the whole team, with the exception of Captain Barrett's tackle berth...
Important as are the benefits which the school will receive from the model court room, the enlarged library with its immense reading room, and from the relief which new offices and class rooms will give to overcrowding, important as these material gains undoubtedly are, they seem somewhat overshadowed in the realization that is suggested this morning of the increasingly strong influence of the Law School on national life...