Word: supplanters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House Plan will, of course, have a considerable effect on the upperclassmen's use of the Union. Dining halls in each House will take away for the undergraduate the importance of the Union's Dining Room; common rooms may supplant somewhat the social functions of the Living Room, the Reading Rooms, the Recreation Rooms. Still, there are quantities of men in the University unaffected by the House Plan. For the graduate students uncared for in dormitory dining halls, the Union is a sufficient substitute. For commuters, the Union offers its lounges and Dining Room. For the unHoused, who will, especially...
Whereas the Indians are strong in the middle distance runs, they are almost a negligible quantity in the mile and two mile races. The Big Red runners will supplant the Green in vying with Harvard in these two races. Goacli Moakley has entered Benson, his crack long distance man, in these events, but whether he will allow him to run in both Saturday night is a question of doubt. Captain J. L. Reid '29 is counted on to repeat his double victory of last year, but it is than likely that Benson, the indoor intercollegiate two-mile champion, may nose...
There is only one objection. The committee regrets changes in the Yard The policy of preserving architectural nightmares because of some sentimental tradition has developed in this country into pure fetishism. States, cities, and institutions alike meet it. If the beauty of buildings that could be designed to supplant Matthew, Weld, Boylston, Emerson, etc., is not sufficiently justification of the destruction of the monstrosities, why not have the Engineering School build the future Harvard? They might do a good job. If the Yard is to be kept in its primeval state, why not tear everything out except Holden, Harvard, Massachusetts...
...talkies' have great possibilities, and they will probably in a great measure supplant the movies, but I don't think anything will ever take the place of the legitimate stage." Thus William Hodge, leading man in "Straight Thru the Door," answered the query of a CRIMSON reporter yesterday as to the effect of the talking movies on the stage...
...must organize the poor and other citizens into farming groups, which can supplant the function of the former bourgeois landlords in producing an exportable surplus of grain...