Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although it is rumored on the campus that Miss True's salary is one that many a savant would be glad to have, she lives most simply, and is most human and unassuming. Her work is a triumph for womankind...
...state of football affairs that is indeed curious. "Harvard won again this year," it says, "and everywhere this is regarded as air upset, as the dope had favored Yale Why? One is at a loss to think. The dope always favors Yale, so much so that the sports writers would appear to have a Yale complex. Yet the hard facts are that since 1906, when the forward pass was introduced and the modern game may be said to have started, Harvard has won eleven games and Yale only eight. Three years there were ties, and two years no games." These...
...ancient adversary as has rarely been recorded against a first-line team. The scores were 36-0 and 41-0. Since football has been football she has shown her superiority over Yale so markedly that only a few could fail to notice it. Yet these few, it would seem, include most of the sports writers of the country, who go on picking Yale year after year without any regard for the records, blandly confident that all of their mistakes are to be dismissed lightly as "upsets...
...houses" are not colleges at all. In this he is right. I have said in that report: "It is purposed to divide Harvard undergraduates into houses where they may life in closer contact with resident scholars. To many, the plan seems less significant than the wide publicity given it would indicate. There seems to be no real desire to disintegrate the student body in respect to the teaching, which is to be university given rather than house given. Nor, apparently, are the colleges to be self-governing units, each really developing a life independent of the others. What the plan...
Because I would not have you think that I share in the general impression, due to widespread newspaper stories, that Harvard is trying anything particularly important toward educational reform, in this her house plan, or that I have been engaged in any misrepresentation, as might be inferred, I ask the courtesy of your columns for this note. Bernard Iddings Bell. Warden and Dean. St. Stephen's College. Columbia University...