Word: undergoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with, as has already been pointed out, the general level of wealth rising and the prestige of a college degree still unimpaired, the demands on the colleges will be far in advance of anything they have ever previously known. To meet these demands the system of college education must undergo chances. To meet them adequately it must undergo changes that are far sighted enough to be far reaching...
...feelings at all about books. Perhaps Plato is too impersonal to arouse such a feeling; but certainly the stories which one has read become a most intimate part of one's nature. People enjoy stories chiefly because they can make themselves the heroes; one's imagination permits one to undergo every hardship, every triumph. The result is that no one can read 'The Toilers of the Sea" without reflecting some of the grandeur of soul of the hero, nor "Man and Superman" without acquiring some of the leading man's delightful emotional immunity...
Nine army officers, under orders from Secretary of War John W. Weeks to undergo a two-year course of study in the Business School, are included in the incoming class of sixty students who begin, work at the opening of the second half-year in the Business School today...
During the ensuing four weeks, the squad will undergo an intensive course of preparation for the debates, which will be held on March 21. In the course of that period, the six final speakers will be named. A team of three, will travel to New Haven to meet Yale, the other will debate Princeton either in Cambridge or in Boston...
...Council of the Baptist Union in London was holding one of its regular meetings. The "Grand Old Man of Nonconformity"?John Clifford (87)?was present. He was pro- posing a vote of sympathy for the union's secretary, Mr. De Shakespere, soon to undergo a delicate operation on the eyes. "I commend my friend to God," said John Clifford. He stopped, paled, collapsed, almost instantly died...