Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method of scoring was similar to that used in track meets, the dormitory winning each event being awarded five points, the second receiving three, and the third one. Tennis and rowing were each divided into three competitions, points being awarded for each division. Points were awarded for the number of men in each dormitory who won their numerals...
...have been honored more within their own life time than President Eliot, and few have so well deserved the honors that they have received. As a university president, he probably achieved more substantial results for the institution he served than any man in a similar position in the history of this country; but his influence has been far wider in its scope than the university, even when the influence of Harvard graduates and Harvard teachers is taken into account. President Eliot has been in a true sense an educational leader for the nation. The educational policies he introduced into Harvard...
...young men and women of the Junior and Senior classes. Those classes could then be organized in preparation for the research work of the graduate courses. One of the reasons why graduate students in an American university are so much more closely supervised and guided in their work than similar students in a European university is that when they arrive at the graduate school of the university they must be taught research methods of work which they have not learned in the last two years of their college career...
...colleges, tend to stamp their mark on the students that attend these institutions. They cannot entirely equalize individual differences but they can make an undergraduate body enough of a unit so that it has different qualities from that of another college. The same environment, the same method of instruction, similar customs and traditions tend to form a whole from a heterogeneous mass of preparatory and high school graduates...
Venice and America Similar...