Word: wherein
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Professor Strobel commented on the diplomatic and consular system of the United States and showed wherein these systems were related to civil service. Professor Macvane spoke on civil service in England, showing the advantages of the English over the American system. Germany and England have, at present, the most fully developed civil service system in the world...
...November of 1896 the Committee of the Board of Overseers to whom these communications were referred, Robert S. Peabody '62, Augustus Hemenway '75, and George B. Shattuck '63, reported to the Board wherein they thought the objections made by the Corporation were unsound. To this report a plan for college buildings and grounds was attached as an explanatory suggestion. A summary of a number of the proposals made in this report, and a cut of a portion of the plan will appear in Wednesday's CRIMSON...
...fact which at first strikes the reader with surprise-is explained in the preface; it is merely because the educational addresses and papers are reserved for another volume. There are, however, in this volume a good many passages relating to education, and one entire essay discusses the question "wherein popular education has failed." What is striking about the book, coming from the President of the oldest American university, is that his field of speculation and interest is so much larger than the mere field of education. Fifty years ago such a book would have been a narrow if not sectarian...
...current issue of the Lampoon is the centre-page reproduction of a well-known weekly. There are a good many things in the rest of the number that should produce laughter in the average undergraduate, and pictorially it is pleasing. Of local hits-the natural province of the Lampoo, wherein it is mose successful,- there are several good ones,- "A Fast Life," is true to life or at least three mornings in the week. The "Foibles" of the Advocate are also well done...
Plato believed in one immutable being and self-existant ideas. His position is one of complete and extreme realism, wherein he differs from Socrates, whose standpoint was that of a nominalist, and from Aristotle who held views midway between realism and nominalism...