Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual examination Monday was divided into three parts, ostensibly allowing one-third of an hour for each division. The second question required an essay on the July Monarchy, in other words, the history of France from 1830 to 1848, giving the men 20 minutes to write on a question covering one fourth of the time treated in the first half year...
...course look wildly around for the nearest exit, convinced that they have wandered into a philosophy lecture. Bailing his trap with a summary of the corporation from Rome to the present day. Professor Dewing has the class following him, at a distance of several sea leagues, by the third lecture. Then he hops briskly to the present time, and proceeds to probe into the motives of the business man. The wheels of the large corporation, the relative advantages of the various forms of business enterprise, the actions of the stock market and the types of securities, in rapid-fire succession...
Beginning today and extending through December 18 there will be two exhibitions of reproductions of prints by Durer, Brueghel, Holbein, and modern masters, held in the seminar room, third floor, of the Fogg Museum. Particulars concerning the purchase of these reproductions may be had at the place of exhibition...
...Third, the fight against liquor in this country began more than a hundred and fifty years ago. Dr. Benjamin Rush, chief medical officers of the Continental army, witnessing the havoc wrought by liquor among the soldiers, used all his influence against it, but of course, the standards of the time was against him. Benjamin Franklin threw all the might of his influence against liquor. Washington repeatedly warned his officers to use all their influence to curb drunkenness. Shortly after the revolution several churches took up the question seriously, the Quakers and the Methodists leading the way. Other churches soon, followed...
While the University is struggling with the various phases of the House Plan, and Yale is in process of debating a similar arrangement, it is interesting to regard the somewhat analogus question with which the third member of the extinct alliance is concerning itself. At Princeton the Utility and desirability of an undergraduate center is under discussion. The situation is in some respects similar to that of Harvard. The widening gap between clubmen and nonclubmen makes for the same sort of disintegrating influence as is here ascribed to unwieldy size and minute division into cliques...