Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Considerable light was thrown on the proposed scientific merger of the University and Technology in the hearing Wednesday. Judge Pierce said that he had supposed the question in contest was whether the fund should be administered by Harvard College and the instruction given in a department of the College. Charles F. Choate '88, counsel for the University, replied that the testator was to administer the fund, as it administered other funds. Mr. Choate explained that in the arrangement there is no surrender of the McKay Fund to Technology, as many suppose, that the title to it remains in the University...
...comprehensible and its good points are apparent to anybody, whether or not he believes them sufficiently weighty to form the basis of a new education for youth after the present educational system shall have been swept away as faulty beyond amendment. The present system has not yet been over-thrown, but the attempt to construct a new one before destroying the existing scheme cannot be too highly praised...
...Helen Todd, November 8, 1913, Mrs. Desha Breckinridge, April 2, 1914, and Norman Hapgood, March 20, 1914, all in Emerson D); Scientific Management (F. W. Taylor, three lectures in 1913, in a College room). In all these cases, in accordance with the very proper College rule, the meetings were thrown open to members of the University only...
...safer to loaf in college than to loaf in a professional school. The young lawyer who has neglected the law may make up his deficiencies in the early years of his practice--"he will have plenty of time then." But there is no recovery of the years thrown away at college...
...Yale team is described as an excellent example of good material gone to waste. The players, from the goal keeper to the forwards, were individually above the average of either Princeton, Haverford or Harvard, but there was no combination of any sort, and the fine individual work was completely thrown away. The Cornell team is regarded as considerably below the average of the Cornell teams of the last two seasons. There was no really good individual work except in the half back line by the left half. The tactics of the other players were elemental in the extreme, and lack...