Word: set
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tide has steadily set toward what may best be termed the democratizing--though I very much dislike the phrase! --of the higher education. Democratizing means always materializing and commercializing. It means the rush for business,--for mere money-making...
...Almeh" by J. R. Dos Passos is a sketch set in Cairo. It seems oddly old-fashioned, like some story written in the sixties or seventies, for it is overloaded with unnecessary details and the dialogue is bookish. The start is slow; the emotions of Mansford are not so treated as to rouse the eager sympathy which will give the surprise at the end its full value. Such a sketch falls if it is ungenuinely dramatic and this...
Today for the second time, Harvard Commencement Week will be opened with a day set apart to Phi Beta Kappa exercises and the announcement of scholastic prizes--this year, a day made especially significant by the ceremonies at the laying of the cornerstone of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library...
...Washburn '15 won the College tennis championship yesterday afternoon on Jarvis Field by defeating J. J. Armstrong '14 in the final set of their match by the score of 6-3. The other three sets were played on May 28 and the fourth set stood 6-6 when play was stopped because of the rain. In the doubles E. H. Whitney '14 and J. J. Armstrong '14 had little trouble in defeating E. R. Hastings, Jr., '14 and J. C. Devereux '14 for the College doubles championship after the first set. In this set, which was close, the Armstrong...
...rapidity with which the invitations have been selling indicates that the attendance will be as large as in former years. The Spread Committee is making arrangements to provide for over 300, at the same time maintaining the standard set by former committees...