Word: set
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...deals with the adventures of Leif Ericsson in his voyage to North America in the year 1000. The first act is laid Norway in that year. Biarna returns from his trip to the westward and his vivid description of the strange, new region he has seen causes Leif to set sail on a similar voyage of discovery. History is followed exactly and the costumes, designed by the Norwegian artist Born, are true to the life of that period in Norway...
...Rotch Mining Laboratory is now nearly finished. One of the tanks is not yet ready, and the troughs for conveying the material from one machine to another have not been placed and the three fifteen horse power motors which are to furnish the power are still to be set in position. This work can be completed without difficulty during the mid-year period, so that the plant may be used for the laboratory work in Mining 4 at the beginning of the second half year...
...Peabody Museum has received a set of old Indian basketwork from Mr. Alfred M. Tozzer, a student in the anthropological department, who collected them among the Indians of North California. The baskets are made extremely carefully and are often the result of two or more years' work. The various designs in the straw are symbolic and show the coat of arms, as it were, of the family. Although unintelligible to the European eye, to the Indian they represent collections of arrow heads, tracks of various animals, quail crests and other significant symbols...
...work of the preparatory schools would be greatly simplified, the instruction would be more concentrated and thorough and the pupils would be far better prepared for the subsequent work of the University. I should strongly deprecate the lowering of the Harvard requirements for admission, but I believe that a set of uniform entrance requirements could be drawn up which Harvard could accept, and still, by determining the number of subjects to be passed and the quality of the preparation required for admission, maintain the level of its own standard unchanged...
...other in the class of men predominating in their student bodies. In one college the great majority of the men come from small and ill-equipped schools, while in another an equally large proportion come from the large and strong schools. It is almost impossible to formulate any one set of examinations which will satisfy the requirement of all these colleges and apply with equal justice to the various classes of men divided among them. I believe Harvard has little to gain and much to lose by compromising in the matter of entrance examinations. The colleges which have adopted...