Word: takes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, the purpose of which is to study the sociological relationship between the instructor and pupils, and their relationship to other social institutions, plans to take Harvard as a base and to discuss the processes of the University thoroughly...
This leads up to the second and more important advantage of the Book Center. Its informality would breed friendship rather than contempt. Before long it would become the undergraduate center; debates, talks, and bull sessions would take place there. College students would be in fruitful contact with Harvard not two but twenty hours a day. No longer could George Ticknor's ghost say that "In Cambridge, the library is one of the last things thought and talked about...
...still hopeful, Vag followed him into the lecture room and procured a seat directly behind him. Instantly the little man produced a decrepit volume of Shakespeare's works and began to fondle the pages with fanatic tenderness. In his infrequent moments of coherence, Vag could distinguish such things as "Take you me for a sponge, my lord?" and "O, come away! My soul is full of discord and dismay." All during the lecture he nodded and frowned and bowed and articulated to himself. When the instructor read a particularly stirring passage, the little man would shut his book, lean back...
With the announcement telephoned from Washington yesterday that the final contracts are on the way, Harvard's civilian pilot applicants will take to the air by the end of this week, according to Dr. William Bollay, instructor in the ground course...
...Malone, sympathizer, poesy reader, prattler extraordinary. When Ted Malone comes visiting, the average U. S. woman-of-the-house finds herself as politely helpless as when the gadabout from down the street calls. "May I come in?" asks Ted. "I see you are alone. . . . Now I'll just take this rocker here by the radio and chat awhile. . . . What lovely new curtains. . . . Well...