Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work, said that "we have always had hard sledding to get funds. The University has always given us $3000 yearly to pay off the debt of the Garden, and we have raised $5000 to carry on the work. Last spring the University, after the debt had been paid, would not continue to contribute their $3000 to the Garden any more. And some time after the last meeting we, the members of the Botanic Garden Visiting Committee, received a statement of the members of the "Visiting Committee to the Department of Botany", with our names listed there as members...
...capitals. The convincing proof that these are works of the first period of building is to be seen on the cast of a capital of the Four Rivers where the surfaces of the leaves and fruits of one of the trees are carved in a way which would be impossible after the impost block was set in place. Many archeologists have believed that the beautiful carving of these capitals indicated a date well advanced in the twelfth century and that the capitals must, therefore, have been sculptured long after they were set in place. The bit of carving to which...
...meet is held in order to promote cross country as a competitive sport, and to give a chance to those men who otherwise would have no opportunity to compete in intercollegiate meets. Thus no University teams are eligible, but seconds may run, and also Freshmen, if the coaches wish. This afternoon, only the Harvard second squad will compete in the meet. The race will be held over the long course, which is about 4 1-2 miles. It comprises the Freshman course and about the first mile of the University course, making what is known as the flat course...
...sure that there is not another man lecturing in the United States today who would be more welcome at Oxford," said Heathcote William Garrod, the Charles Eliot Norton lecturer from Oxford at Harvard this year, discussing the appointment of John, Livingston Lowes Ph.D. '06, professor of English, who will be the first George Eastman Visiting Professor to the University of Oxford during...
...today it numbers about 300 men who are reading in English literature at the University. As it exists today it is largely the creation of the late Sir Walter Raleigh, who was a professor at Oxford from 1904 to 1919. When the school was started people feared that it would become a school of 'literary lounging', therefore there has been a good deal of the stiffening of the scholarship of English literature of late...