Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latin passions to put to vote. To the rescue came. Greece's confident Nicholas Politis, practiced handy man at loosening League pinches. He drafted a compromise resolution which "... confidently hopes the preparatory Disarmament Commission will be able to resume the work interrupted at the last session with the view of framing a preliminary draft convention for the reduction and limitation of land, naval and air armaments as soon as possible...
...present he is in charge of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial laboratory for cancer research at Bar Harbor, Me It was in view of his distinguished work in this field that he was appointed to fill the post of managing director...
Harvard men have an especial interest in the inauguration of this latest introduction of modern educational methods into the Orient in view of the formation of the Harvard-Yenching Institute last year which led to the re-organization and expansion of the Chinese Department in the University. It has been frequently pointed out that there are vast stores of knowledge of an older civilization than any in the Occident that are all but ignored in the West. But of even more importance is the spread of European institutions and culture to the East...
...latter class is in fact not a myth in order to justify a review of one of their productions; for the first mentioned class will go to see it no matter what the reviewer says, and the second mentioned couldn't by any amount of persuasion be induced to view such a spectacle after their initial experience...
...dates were advanced almost two full weeks this year so that tutors could eliminate work with their tutees on the fields covered by these examinations and start the year on more important material. The wisdom of such an attitude, if it is true, is surely to be questioned in view of the chaotic conditions under which students are forced to take the examinations this year. The whole condition at present is surely far from ideal. Some arrangement of these examinations in the Junior year might eliminate many of the glaring deficiencies in the present system...