Word: six
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time, Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 of the Government Department will deliver a course of six lectures on the spirit of the Chinese Revolution. Sun-Yat-Sen and the spirit of democracy, Borodin and Bolshevism, Chiang Kai-sek and militarism, Feng Yu-hsiang and religion, T. V. Soong and capitalism, and C. T. Wang and modern science will be among the characters discussed...
There are eight class crews working out, four under the direction of Coach Haines and four under the guidance of Coach E. J. Brown '96. These crews are made up of all the heavy oarsmen who will be candidates for the University crew in the spring. There are also six lightweight eights being tutored by F. R. Sullivan...
Heathcote William Garrod, Professor of Poetry at Oxford who has been appointed to the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry here, expects to begin his public lectures in the near future, as soon as he is able to complete his plans for the series of six which are customarily given at Harvard...
...six public lectures which he will deliver this year are later to be published in book form, under a provision of the endowment by Mr. Stillman...
...Columbia freshman had to know Greek grammar and composition; four books of the Anabasis; three of the Iliad; Latin grammar and composition; seven books of Caesar's Commentaries; six books of the Aeneid and six orations of Cicero. In history, English, geography and mathematics the tests were equally severe. "Acute paralysis" would afflict modern youths faced with such tests, in Dr. Butler's opinion. But the same condition would probably have afflicted the youth of 1879 if there had not been unbroken centuries of the so-called "humanities" drilled into their ancestors. It is another instance of adaptability...