Word: tells
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will deny that members of the University or anyone else has the "right" to hear "facts" about Russia. Nor will anyone deny that those people eager for the knowledge can ask any person they please to tell them about Russia. But an entirely different light is thrown on the matter when a man is invited to speak in a University building who is wholly and entirely unfitted to address a body of students. Here again, no one will deny the "right" to extend the invitation. It is not that Mr. Humphries looks favorably on certain phases of Soviet government. Many...
...Bayard Dodge of the Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, Syria, will speak at the First Congregational Church of Cambridge on Sunday at 4.30 P. M. This address will be of special interest, as Mr. Dodge witnessed the course of the war in Syria; he will tell of his personal experiences there. As a result of the suffering which he saw during the war he has been especially interested in the orphans and refugees of Syria. A very cordial invitation is extended to members of the University and their friends...
...this dinner will be to elect the first group of members from the Sophomore and Junior classes, and to appoint the several committees which will handle the society's business. Among the other speakers of the evening will be Dean C. N. Greenough, a former member, who will tell of the society's activities in the past. J. G. King '20, secretary, will discuss the plans for the future. Treasurer C. W. Eliot, 2nd, '20, will read the annual report...
...question. Columbia's sphere of influence is the largest of any institution of learning in this country. Indeed, it probably wields more influence over more men and women than any other university in the world, because its announced registration of 16,000 does not begin to tell the whole story. Thousands of other persons come under the Columbia spell through the medium of extension courses and lectures given in all parts of Greater New York...
Records of 62 institutions show a like increase. From 130,630 students in 1916 the total has swollen to 158,816. Although the colleges were not wholly prepared to receive these great numbers, and even had to tell many that they could not receive them, and although they found that educational conditions were in a chaotic state, they set to work to effect a readjustment on a fundamental and expansive basis. Today they are ready to solve any problem that may be thrust upon them and ready for an era of unparallelled prosperity...