Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This increasing organization of intramurals has come at a time when every college is in need of such organization, as all over the country Varsity athletics are finding themselves embroiled in the question of commercialization versus non-commercialization. House sports here are a beacon light toward the shore of sport for sport's sake. That enthusiasm and spirit has been injected into these intramurals is a credit to Harvard...
Felix M. Warburg was a close and valued friend of Harvard, and his death removes a hand that has supported the University with liberality, modesty, and intelligence for a quarter century. It is estimated that his gifts toward the Music Building, the Education School Endowment, and the new Fogg Museum totaled over a million dollars, and marked him as one of the most generous of Harvard's non-alumnus benefactors...
...city's downtown streets. Land was bought, drained, beautified. Sixteen hundred acres of lake shore: were filled in. To the north, Michigan Boulevard was widened into a four-lane local and a four-lane express highway. To the south on manufactured land, a chain of smooth drives converged toward the city. By 1935 the whole vast project, costing an estimated $100,000,000 was completed-except at the city's most vital point, a scant quarter mile stretch of the old Boulevard across the Chicago River, which still clotted at each change of a traffic light...
...character of the novel is Napoleon. Heroine is his Polish mistress, 20-year-old, blonde, serious-minded Marie Walewska. By rubberizing history, pseudonymous English Author Pilgrim contrives a cinematic tale based on the ten months which marked the height of Napoleon's career, the beginning of his skid toward Waterloo as a result of his Spanish campaign...
...catalogues or throwing the stacks open to all comers, although some modifications of the stack rule does seem in order. It will not come through any procedures which would prove in efficient in a large library. It can only come through a basic change in the library's attitude toward the undergraduate. Until the latter feels that the library is his, that attendants are there to help and not restrict him, he will coninue to regard the friendly and hospitable air of the Farnsworth Room as an oasis in an otherwise grim and inhuman desert...