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...weather, because it is one of the most striking and persistent of first impressions at Oxford. I have seen freshmen very depressed and lonely chiefly because of the weather. It is the first real obstacle to feeling at home in Oxford. Once one has taken proper steps to surmount this obstacle, one has gone a good way towards becoming a good Oxonian. English education owes much to the weather, because English character owes much to the English climate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Rhodes Scholar Writes Contemporary Oxford Articles | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

...Reinhardt's Season?Sovereign importations from Central Europe for those who can surmount the barrier of the German language. (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 23, 1928 | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...might call a hopelessly optimistic nation. No evil day can possibly dawn upon us; we are too clever. Secretary Hoover may say, "Increasing population will force the United States to advance in scientific discovery or to lower its standard of living." No matter. We will meet all obstacles and surmount them. Knibbs and Pearl, speaking as sociologists, may point out that the pitifully short lives full of hunger and misery endured by the peoples of China and India, and the economic disturbances of Western Europe, are due in large measure to high population density. What of it! It can never...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birth Control Must Accompany Civilization's Further Advance | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

...undergraduates, under the departmental system as it now exists, he cannot be advanced until some other university recognizes his strength and offers him assurance of a permanent job. There are, to be sure, a few exceptions in which Yale has acted in time to save her teachers. We must surmount this obstacle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE NEWS PRIZE ESSAYIST ADVOCATES GREATER FLEXIBILITY IN DEPARTMENTAL SYSTEM AND MORE ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS | 5/21/1925 | See Source »

...Tiger sextet is also strong and should prove an obstacle that the Elis will find difficult to surmount. Although the Nassau men have a comparatively unimpressive record the team has been brilliant at times especially in defeating the St. Nicholas Club team. However, the Orange and Black fell before the Williams six which was defeated by Yale in three contests. The Princeton team's development has been slow, but critics expect them to offer stiff opposition to Yale's stickmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE AND PRINCETON TO OPEN HOCKEY SERIES | 1/10/1925 | See Source »

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