Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curriculum was set up with two courses, a stiff educational one to prepare "career girls" for the Bryn Mawr examinations, a less strenuous one in letters and the arts for misses planning to take their places in Society. But each & every girl must pass an examination to get into the school. And each & every one is taught that character, competence, self-reliance come before Career or Society...
...made a fortune out of it; married Charlotte Augusta Rhodes, daughter of Coal-and-Iron-King Daniel Rhodes, lost his fortune and went into partnership with his father-in-law. Soon Rhodes & Co. became M. A. Hanna & Co. Long before he showed his whole political hand Hanna began to take an interest in politics. He attended the Republican conventions of 1888 and 1892, but he bided his time and saw how things were done. Then in 1896, when he was ready, when he had found his man William McKinley, he quietly retired from business, went into politics with a bang...
...concerts are scheduled for the Harvard Instrumental Clubs over the coming week-end. One will take place at the Roxbury Latin School on Friday, December 13, the other at Williams College on Saturday...
...resemblance to the Harvard Union, in which the University once hoped to find a solution to the same problem of reintegration to which the House Plan now seeks the key. Whether Princeton will have better success with a medium which Harvard found, inadequate, or will be forced to take other and further steps, will depend upon her own conditions...
...previous years, Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will again give a Christmas reading at the Harvard Union. The reading this year will take place on Monday evening, December 17. The doors will be closed promptly at 8.30 o'clock and late-comers will be turned away. Union members only will be admitted...