Word: valid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although many of its objections are undoubtedly valid, the Advocate in its current number has done little more on the whole than register thorough disapproval of the House Plan. Such a course two months ago was perhaps the only one possible. But the time for pure opposition is by now rather late. The Plan in some form or other will be adopted; about that there can be no doubt. It is now for those concerned about the future of Harvard rather to urge that the impending reorganization of the College be made to serve some positive educational aim, than unconditionally...
...will be said that such a scheme would lead to specialization and narrowness. To a certain extent this objection is valid, though a wide variety of types, both social and intellectual, are certainly represented among the students who are following any broad field of knowledge. But it is difficult to see how active intellectual curiosity can be aroused among undergraduates, naturally tending toward diffusion of effort, without some specification, and consequently narrowing, of interest. Alan R. Sweezy...
...respectable Frenchman may obtain such a license by applying to the police, but loses his citizenship for the period that the license is valid...
Besides those undetained by actuality there is the class of persons who have a valid reason for a delayed arrival at these twilight recitals. At slight hardship to this more worthy class but for great benefit to the meticulously prompt, a more rigid system of ushering seems advisable. Under the present regulations a person is allowed admittance to the main auditorium as soon as he arrives within the outer gate, no matter what is going on inside. As a consequence, the first half hour of the recital is accompanied be the incessant rattling of an archal lock and the resulting...
...investigation, the trial of Sinclair for criminal conspiracy was then fresh in Washington's mind. Sinclair's was an extraordinary name indeed, but Dr. Work took no extraordinary precautions. He simply asked the Solicitor of the Interior Department if he thought Sinclair's option was valid. Solicitor Ernest Odell Patterson said he thought...