Word: towards
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spite of the undoubted honesty of many of the foreign journals, we would follow some plan of anglicizing them. Such a change may lead their readers as far toward the ideals of our republic as almost anything else...
...Summer School of 1919, by a vote of the Faculty, two summer courses will be permitted to be counted toward the degree of A.B. or S.B., but no undergraduate will be permitted to obtain credit for more than one full course in each session. Thus it will not be possible to get credit for more than two full courses during the summer. Most of the courses offered will count as half courses for the degree of Bachelor of Arts Associate in Arts, and Bachelor of Sciences. Certain advanced courses will count toward the degree of Master of Arts...
...latest criticism of President Lowell's report to the Overseers seems to me particularly unthinking, even for journalism. The purchase of property between the Avenue and Charles River is a further step toward making Cambridge fit for human habitation. Days may dawn when, in spite of abattoir, trolleys and funeral processions, Harvard will breathe a sense of academic labor and repose. We must not fall into the national blunder of making a desert of empty buildings and calling it scholastic peace, but even such misuse of money would be wiser than the increasing of instructors' salaries...
...Increase of salary would be a further bridging of the narrow gulf that separates us from commercial institutions. Scholars are not out for money, they want to work in sympathetic company, amid congenial surroundings. They run no race with bankers, corporation lawyers, or fashionable practitioners. They are directed toward a different goal. They ask for bread, not for stones...
...twenty-three game baseball schedule announced this morning is the greatest step yet taken toward a real old time spring athletic season. Once more home runs and strikeouts will be on everybody's lips and Soldiers Field will echo to the crack of bats and the yelling of coaches...