Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...importunate youth, had solace in simultaneous news from Smith College. There, young U. S. women expressed either a more conservative attitude toward religion, or greater contentment with the system as applied, by voting 1,081 to 209 to retain compulsory chapel at Smith, a ratio just about inverse to similar votes of late years at Dartmouth,. Yale, Amherst, Vassar...
...voted it quite the most beautiful and elaborate May pageant ever held at Mount Holyoke, and doubtless it outshone many a similar affair elsewhere in the land, for Mount Holyoke had outdone herself to observe the 25th anniversary in office of her celebrated President, Dr. Mary Emma Woolley...
...Last June the Guggenheim School graduated nine men. This year it enrolls 15. The prospect of practical experience at Government fields is expected to multiply the enrollment by leaps and bounds. Attention turned to four other universities to see how soon they would obtain, or the War Department offer, similar official units to complement their schools of aviation -Georgia Tech and the Universities of California. Illinois, Washington...
...finish line with two lengths to spare. Earlier in the afternoon the University lightweights rowed a losing race against Tech's 150-pound combination. While these boats were losing over the familiar Charles River course, the Freshman 150-pounders and the Junior A. class champions, were suffering a similar fate at Derby at the hands of Yale Sophomore and first 150-pound outfits...
...exit from the enigma in further curricular jugglings. Bringing pragmatism into education, he would replace as much of the historical survey work of general fields as is now given by courses which would deal more with situations than with subjects. To understand how a nation or civilization met situations similar to those which now face the citizen of the modern world is to him very worth while...