Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the last day of registration over, the student Council Budget Committee is well on its way toward the goal of $12,000 which it has set. A good portion of this has already been received, and the Committee will send out bills for the rest of the money which has been pledged, in the near future...
...magazine one will like if one likes that sort of thing. Other new publications have had less merit; certainly few have possessed the technical excellence of this one. The substantial list of god fathers, including President Neilson of Smith and Professor Murdock of Harvard does a great deal toward removing the qualms which its rather vague parentage gives forth. Those who can neither read Plato is the original nor Harrah's is signs may appreciate the tremendous significance exhibited by snapshots of Cambridge candy kitchens; those who are able to do neither one may find pleasure in admiring the type...
...reconstruction of the episcopal works of the first Roman Catholic bishop of her beloved New Mexico, Jean Marie Latour.* She draws him with esthetic reverence, an immaculate conception of a missionary in buckskins who, lost and athirst in the desert, still retained elegance, distinction and "a kind of courtesy toward himself, toward his beasts, toward the juniper tree before which he knelt and the God whom he was addressing...
...introduced the first speaker of the evening, Dean A. Hanford who addressed the assemble class as "Fellow Freshmen," referring to his first year in the Dean's Office Dean Hanford quickly brought his talk to discussion of the purpose of an education. He advised his charged to all toward, first, a development of intellect all power, second, the development of critical sense, and third, the development of individuality. "The best top the world has produced," stated Dean Hanford, is the highly trained mind However, intellectual power is not merely an assimilation of facts, but a constructive use of them toward...
...Toward the close of his Freshman year each undergraduate is required to select a special field in which to concentrate his attention during his last three years. A tutor is assigned to him, who is responsible for the preparation of the candidate to try his divisional examinations in his Senior year. The tutor guides the choice of courses and supplements with personal instruction and advice the student's work in his courses. Reading assigned by the tutor is discussed at conferences at intervals of about two weeks. Occasional written work may be required...