Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public speaking at Harvard, and E. M. Rowe '27. Both are coaches of the Harvard Debating Council. The judges will choose the team first of all upon their knowledge of the debators' ability, as evidenced in former debates, and secondly, upon the showing the candidates make in the short series of trials to be held in the early part of March...
...evenings at which times a student would always feel at liberty to visit. During his residence in Stoughton Hall, Peterkin tried this system, and found it worked very well. Many students paid regular visits, while others dropped in casually for a chat after the theatre, or to pay a short evening call...
...people from the work of government is apt to retard rather than further the national development in the long run. If institutions are really the expression of the social organization it is hardly conceivable that the system should continue long after the country has been restored to health. In short, it is difficult to see how dictatorships could have been avoided in most of the countries that now have them, but it is equally hard to believe that they can be more than temporary, provisional and transitional
...about by an instructor and who are now, at the end of an hour, almost wholly unable to identify the specimens talked about, could return, and by individual observation of the labelled objects assimilate the instruction which they had received, to a degree that is now quite impossible. In short, this collection, fine as it is, is today of surprisingly little use for teaching, in--comparison with what could be made of if under different conditions...
...idea behind the whole House plan prevents a symmetrical arrangement and a harmonious architecture, there is no definite reason why one unit should stare placidly across a vista at its exact reproduction. As long as the site favor a development which lacks the crowded discord of mushroom growth, anything short of futuristic pattern for the buildings and their relation to each other might be employed...