Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than one kind of acceleration the names of the quick of yesterday are often to be found in the columns of the dead of to-day. It is to be hoped that the rebuilt mausoleum rising from the paying will provide no excuse for the classical use of the mausoleum as one's final resting place...
...following article, reprinted from the Yale News, forms part of a "comparison of the educational systems in use at the present time in the larger Eastern colleges." It is run here at such length because, though a product of anonymity, it serves excellently in presenting the extra-Harvard undergraduate's interpretation and evaluation of the present educational system of the University...
...system now in use at Harvard is, I believe, unquestionably the best of those surveyed here. It is the only one that has a logical, well worked out theory of education behind it. The others seem to have grown up, hit or miss, with the years and the theory behind them, which I have expounded above is childish in comparison. Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Williams and Dartmouth have succeeded, by some miracle of inefficiency, in interfering both too much and too little in their students' choice of studies. Too much--because for the first two years they suppress all individuality, practically...
...these reasons that I believe Harvard's "Rules for Concentration and Distribution" to be the most satisfactory system of requirements now in use among the larger Eastern colleges. Torquemada in The Yale News...
...directed in his will that the University, should use the bequest at its discretion, "for research work in the field of medicine, with special reference to the application of medical knowledge to the special department of dentistry...