Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basket itself is a piece of native work from Borneo which the Museum received last October. It was hung, with many similar objects, in the Pacific Islands room of the Museum for exhibition. Its turning motion was noted immediately and at first thought to be merely the result of the impetus caused by its installation. The strange turning continued, however, and gradually drew the attention of an increasing number of scholars and professors...
...ample opportunity to gather data for the play which she was contemplating. At the time she had no definitely formulated plan of writing for the theatre, but merely played with the idea of a drama on Harvard in the same way that other college students so often play with similar vague schemes...
...program will be similar to these which the Instrumental Clubs have given at their numerous performances throughout the year, and on the concert trips on which they have travelled about 7500 miles. The opening number will be rendered by the Banjo Club and will be the "Office of the Day" selection arranged by W. N. Rice. The Vocal Club will appear in the second number. The Mandolin Club, unique in being the sole organization of its kind in the country which uses only wooden instruments, will play the orchestral music best suited...
...qualities of their associates. This can be accomplished only through personal contact. With this end in view a Cooperation Sheet was sent at the first of the year to each graduate student. Upon this sheet he checked the particular type of activity in which he was interested. Men of similar interests were then brought together. The theory behind the whole plan was that although all graduate students are intensely busy, each man does have a limited amount of time which he wishes to use in association with his fellows...
...wisdom of returning Rhodes scholars is evident in the proposal put forth by the Harvard Student Council to organize the undergraduate body into residential groups analogous to the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. When Woodlow Wilson undertook a similar reform at Princeton he failed for lack of understanding of the English universities--perhaps also of the American undergraduate. His theory was rigidly "democratic." In each "quad" there were to be so man" rich men, so many poor men; so many "prep-school" men and so many men from public school; so many Northerners, Southerners, Westerners. As if this leveling were...