Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later life" is stressed again in an editorial dealing with Chamber Concerts open to members of the University. After asking for support, it says, "Only in later life will those who entirely neglect music. . . appreciate what opportunities they have lost...
...Massachusetts tradition, and the Princes of the Roman Catholic Church, the Presidents of Harvard University, the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the Governors of the Commonwealth regularly occupy adjacent positions of honor at all public functions, subscribe their names as patrons to the same good works, and support very nearly the same causes and matters of public policy. An Irishman who is a Knight of Malta was elected to the presidency of the $50,000,000 Boston Edison Company, after serving a mixed apprenticeship at Holy Cross and the very Harvard firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden and Perkins...
...greatly exaggerated idea. When mechanical facilities are much on a par as they are at Harvard, new college generations will constantly change the comparative status and general character of the Houses, as experiences at Cambridge, England and at other colleges have shown. The other chief support of the cross-section plan has been another fear--that Houses will become absolutely specialized. On this score the college authorities would find it very instructive if they examined the differing fields of concentration of present-day roommates in any House...
...fact that the University would act as a medium between the donor and the selected student does not imply credence in the political beliefs of Germany any more than the granting of a Harvard scholarship to a resident of Alabama implies support of Negro suppression in southern United States. And the student's acceptance of the scholarship neither entails any obligation to Herr Hanfstaengl nor evinces approval of his character. This scholarship is an opportunity for intimate investigation into the thoughts and customs of Europe; and to construe any other meaning is to slander the student's intelligence. The very...
Earthquakes and glass flowers apparently never caused much concern among the architects of the University Museum. The massive horizontal timbers which support the several floors are not firmly attached to the walls. Instead, each end of the beam rests in an iron sling which is in turn suspended from a stout "bracketlike" bar, anchored in the wall masonry. All of which leaves the beam free to move in its supporting sling...