Word: timed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...country with such an energy that it drives them to labor ten to fourteen hours a day. Moreover, the Germany policy is to large degree unchanged. The war has taught her one great lesson to push toward her goal with less boasting and more common-sense. At the same time the fires of anarchy all over the world are bursting into flames and disturbances are rising into chaos...
...floods of rag-time and jazz are to sweep away all the dikes of protection against them, they will begin their work with the music-makers of the younger generation. They might easily prevail in this community were the programs of the Harvard Glee Club given over to the modern equivalents of "Upidee." It is entirely reassuring, therefore, to see the selections that have been chosen for the first concert--and to know that Dr. Davison, who practices good music as effectively as he preaches it, is to conduct them all. Lovers of the best choral music well sung will...
...That this is a real danger was illustrated in this country at the time of the signing of the armistice. Then it was not unusual to see on the cover page of a single magazine or grouped together on a single platform, such grotesque combinations as a Russian anti-Czarist who had learned in his youth to respect Lenine and an Irish agitator or agitatress; a Western I. W. W. angered because of the treatment of his leaders in our courts and an eastern highbrow who had detected an inconsistency in the government's policy; a former editor...
...entirely successful in bringing about the advantages at which it aims. One of its main purposes--to give the student more freedom in his studies and a chance to carry on a certain amount of individual investigation--has been entirely missed, because the faculty has failed to provide any time in which the extra work may be done...
...basis. To make it successful would mean a diminution in the required classroom routine and a decrease in the number of tests to compensate for the added individual work. Such a change would increase both the opportunity and responsibility of the student. Certain men would no doubt waste extra time given them; they are the same men who absorb as little as possible under the present system. But the ever-increasing number of students who aim to get the most out of their four years at a university would leave Harvard fitted to face the problems of the world from...