Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The books are mostly filled with records, listing sales and accounts in general, of this company, which did much business in importation, especially of liquors, for the Chinese of the city of Canton. These books have been rotting because of the ravages of white ants, and those of worms. Some...
"In this way, Harvard can be considered different from some of our western Universities. In them the attitude of "collegiatism" seems, if anything, to have increased; whereas at Harvard, and also other colleges which have adopted the tutorial system, fewer and fewer are coming to the college just because it...
"The greatest need of many college students is an idea of how to apportion their time. This knowledge should be taught in all schools, but is not. For that reason it would be a wise idea for colleges to devote some of their time to individual instruction for incoming students...
The granting of such scholarships would show the supreme confidence in the theory that true education is self-education. A start in this direction has been made, however, and some such scholarship might well be established for study at Harvard.
Some small percentage of the uninvited guests systematically frisk the parked automobiles; others aid lost articles in staying lost perpetually, in spite of the efforts of the Lost and Found Department; other little magicians prove that the hand is quicker than the eye when exploring the pockets of the fallen...