Word: united
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand when every advertisement is a "unit of effective art," to quote from the announcement of the awards, the leaders in the field at least, have certainly come very near achieving it. By the publicity given the competition itself and the work of the prize-winners, the Bok foundation has made valuable contributions towards the attainment of that ideal...
...purchase of this site by Harvard was made in connection with its plans for the ultimate completion of the House Plan. President Lowell's program for subdividing the undergraduate body into small residential groups calls for the erection of a new unit on the land now occupied by the power house. The building is a substation of the Elevated, acting in a reserve capacity, and it also supplies heat by means of a tunnel for the University buildings in the yard and to the north of it as well as across the river to the Business School...
...construction of the Freshman Halls in 1914 marked the real beginning of central heating at the University. Because of the proximity of the power-producing unit of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, the obvious solution of the dormitory heating problem was a "hook-up" with the boiler room of the power plant. The way in which the concession was secured is one of the unwritten chapters of Harvard diplomacy, but the negotiations were successful and the economies in heating costs led the College authorities to consider at once ways and means for extending the service...
Here is a very different story from the scheme of arrangement under Faculties. Scholastic, social, athletic activity, all is bound up in the College, and it is to the smaller unit which supplies all this that the undergraduate owes whatever loyalty he may feel to an institution...
Cardinal O'Connell is a scholar, a great organizer,* a most understanding man. None knows better than he that, while his Church is the largest single religious unit in the U.S., the combined Protestant bodies are far more numerous...