Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the announcement of definite plans and a date for the meeting in Symphony Hall next spring, a second to the favor shown toward the plan by the News is in order. When the Harvard club dropped-out of the intercollegiate competition last yea there remained only informal meetings such as the concert before the Yale-Harvard football game, Glee clubs, unlike athletic teams, are self sufficient,-competition is not a necessity. But, whereas there is no necessity, there is a very marked opportunity of intercollegiate relations of the highest type. A joint glee club concert does not even imply...
...teacher has come to recognize that the undergraduate is a student as well. The explanation of the turning back toward a more serious interest in the curriculum proper and away from the extra-curriculum activities in recent years would be a fascinating and enlightening subject for careful study. For the moment it does not matter. The swing is actually going on. In its broad sweep it was discussed and approved by Professor Lovett. Quite happily Professor Edgell has placed the Reading Period Plan in its proper relationshiup with the general tendency...
...Southern Chinese area dominated by three groups of "Chinese Nationalists''† was extended northward last week by the advance of their several armies toward Peking. The reaction of U. S. President Coolidge to this situation was to inform reporters that the removal of the U. S. Legation from Peking down to the seacoast at Tientsin, or even 650 miles southward to Shanghai, was contemplated. The reaction of John Van Antwerp MacMurray, alert, pugnacious U. S. Minister at Peking, was to keep the cables busy with code messages which legation officials privately said were appeals for instructions to stand...
...seemed to have composed their differences with the Conservative Nationalists last week, and to be re-establishing a stable regime in which the Soviet Russian agent Michael Borodin (see RUSSIA) was again prominent after a period of eclipse. 2)The "Conservative Nationalists" of Nanking who were rapidly pushing toward Peking last week, led by their generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. 3) The "Independent Nationalist" army of General Feng Yusiang, likewise advancing on Peking from Honan Province
...Board of Admissions, and representatives of the Student Councils. The new organization is to be set up at once, and will be prepared to begin work with students in the fall. Its primary purpose will be the assisting of such students as voluntarily seek the department's services, toward a more intelligent utilization of the opportunities afforded by the courses in the University...