Word: towards
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been the maximum heretofore. Of the 92 courses offered this year, 65 have been accepted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the bachelor's degrees from students in the University, as against 47 so accepted in 1907; and 20 of the courses have been approved as leading toward a "master's" degree, as compared with nine such courses last year...
With Harvard, Yale and Princeton all working toward this end, and with Harvard already strong on the intracollegiate side, there is little cause for worry. When sentiment is general, results are inevitable...
...Athletic Committee has taken steps toward reclaiming more land this spring, and already surveys have been made and estimates are being prepared. It has been prompted to act by the necessity for providing more playgrounds in order to accommodate the rapidly increasing number of class teams, scrub teams, and teams representing new branches of athletic sports...
...rules of the caucus being enforced with marked rigidity. Supporters of the different candidates did much to get voters out to help their cause and make the caucus more real and interesting. The seriousness and earnestness with which the whole affair was managed was a strong factor contributing toward its success...
...portrait to the Union as its graduating gift: a fitting remembrance from the last class that spent a year in Cambridge while Professor Shaler still lived. It is necessary to raise a large sum-much larger than was anticipated. And for this reason every Senior must subscribe more liberally toward a memorial worthy of a man renowned as the undergraduates' dearest friend...