Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee set Wednesday December 18 at 8 o'clock as the date for the first meeting of the foreign students. This gathering will be of informal nature and it is expected that a distinguished speaker whose name is to be announced at a later date will give a short address during the evening. Refreshments will be served. It was determined that an informal plan such as this will be followed as a change from the more formal round table discussions of last year...
...students in the University, divided into the following categories: Law School, Business School, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Freshmen, and an independent Class. With the exception of the Business School tournament, which begins on Wednesday, January 8. these will open on Wednesday, December 11, and will end shortly before the Midyear Examination Period. Class teams will be chosen as a result of these, and a short ladder tournament conducted...
...However, there are some general fields in which we may find that Byrd has made great advances. For instance, we know almost nothing of the climatic conditions in Antarctica, since previous expeditions have remained there for only short periods. Another field in which we are in almost complete ignorance is the nature of the surface features of the continent...
...great system of chemical laboratories a beautiful and elaborately devised medical school around which hospitals cluster observatories in Cambridge and South America and Arizona a branch school of medicine in China a main library with millions of books charts manuscripts; there are museums of a dozen specializations in short Harvard has become a great storehouse of our knowledge of man's past and of the earth and of the universe before and beyond man's own little history. And with this storehouse it has affiliated research units to advance our knowledge of whatever is a too small or, too remote...
Partly this vast and intricate equipment exists for research and scholarship, but it is chiefly arranged to the advantage of the students who in short generations use it and pass on. In the college and university world for a little while withdrawn from the instant demands of their times young men mature their minds and establish their bodies in healthful ways. At Harvard for almost three hundred years now they have been moving toward these ends in an atmosphere of traditions subtly and slowly changing and yet preserving something characteristic from the beginning. Once Harvard was small...