Word: welling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...drive, and be responsible for turning in their subscriptions. The total number of University men in the vicinity of Boston is more than 10,000, and this body has been classified and divided into numerous groups with the aim in view of having each man approached by a canvasser well informed as to his personal activities and interests. A committee has been organized for each professional group, one for the doctors, another for the lawyers, and so forth. It is hoped in this way that the canvassers will be able to arouse the personal interest of every living University...
...great institution which has borne witness to its lively sympathy for the University of Louvain." This refers to the fact that the University invited certain professors from Louvain to come to teach at Cambridge shortly after their own university had been destroyed by the Germans in 1914, as well as to the share which President Lowell and other Harvard men have had more recently in the work of the International Committee for the restoration of the library at Louvain...
Nowadays when one encounters people who are in a reposeful state of mind about anything, they excite one's interest, even though they may not be either congenitally or congenially interesting. Among the few groups that are resting easy in a serene consciousness of good work well done, with not much more to do, is the fraternity or the sorority, of those who feel that they have at last helped to make the colleges safe for the young man. That a college is a wild and wicked place, and that of all colleges Harvard has been for years the wildest...
...addition to the living rooms and card rooms, the Union also has rooms where organizations may hold their meeting and give banquets and dinners. A modern barber shop and a well-stocked cigar counter are further provided for the convenience of the members...
From figures so far available the first-year men will number well over 450, and two temporary dormitories have been secured to house the surplus...