Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some time the Business School at Harvard has been collecting motion pictures for educational use. Particularly has the emphasis at Harvard been laid upon reels that deal with science and scientific processes. Meanwhile at Yale the students of the university have followed the same general paths, but have followed them further. Yale has applied the motion picture to the field of history, and furthermore, she has produced the pictures herself. Then, in the last few months, the Yale University Press has put out a very complete "visual history" of the United States, eventually to be published in fifteen volumes...
...hurdle trophies have been given by C. G. Krogness '21, winner of the high hurdles in 1919 against Yale, and W. F. Garcelon '96, the first man to use the present form in the low hurdles...
Construction on the pool unit will be begun sometime during the summer in accordance with the conditions of two two gifts amounting to $350,000, made this winter by anonymous donors. It is expected that the pool will be ready for use by next winter, in which case Harvard may have its first swimming team during the 1928-29 season...
...indifferently watches his warrior father fare forth to battle, return victorious; fare forth again, return defeated; fare forth a third time to fetch Princess Guzisur, Temugin's 14-year-old affianced bride. On the journey the old man dies. The sworn marriage contract is broken, for of what use is fatherless Temugin as an ally? Ignoring the insult, an old minister of state tricks halfhearted vassal princes into allegiance to Temugin, and year after year the youth leads them into desultory warfare with faint glory and inconsiderable plunder...
...believes that it is, on the ground that it has been found to be so in some thousands of cases. His findings, however, it valid, undoubtedly put a premium on good work at college. To be sure the man who has the ability to do well but does not use it at college will not lose his ability thereby, but if success at college studies is to be accepted as an evidence of a capacity for business, then certainly the opportunity to prove that capacity is one well worth having...