Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...system which has been instituted at Sing Sing since Mr. Osborne took control is planned on very different lines. All minor offences are tried by a convicts' court, the silence rules have been greatly alleviated, the supervision is now much less strict and other similar changes have been made. The attitude of the prisoners has changed remarkably, and everything indicates that in time the men who leave Sing Sing will be really fit for citizenship in the outside world...
Princeton has received an offer of $250,000 from Mrs. Russell Sage, which will be given to the university provided the trustees raise a similar amount by July 1. The fund is being raised for the purpose of erecting a new university dining hall, similar to Memorial Hall, on the Princeton campus. The sophomore class alone has contributed $30,000 to the $75,000 already raised...
...Pennsylvania will all be vaccinated for typhoid fever before the rowing season gets very far under way accordingly to Coach Vivian Nickalls. Last year the Pennsylvania crew was broken up by an epidemic of the fever, and Coach Nickalls does not intend to take any chances of a similar occurrence this spring...
...that serene disregard of natural fact which appears in so much undergraduate production, seems to make gorse and heather one and the same and both purple. (The reviewer at least had supposed them different and gorse yellow). In the second sketch--"Boston: Mount Vernon Street"--not only is there similar disregard of fact--for from Chestnut street the writer sees streets which ordinarily are visible only from Myrtle street--but there is also the conclusion: "Sang as I went along; shouted...
...courses have been met by students' fees, from the fund of the Lowell Institute, and by contributions collected through the Boston Chamber of Commerce. The successful working of this experiment has suggested that co-operative organization for public service on the part of all of the colleges and similar institutions in Massachusetts might make possible an advance in university extension and aid in bringing about other desired ends. President Lowell and James Hardy Ropes '59, dean in charge of University Extension have been invited to represent the University...