Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perusal of his account gives the following impressions...
Team B, though not so formidable on paper as team A, should nevertheless, give a good account of itself in the event of its being named to oppose Team A, on Monday. The outer defense is taken care of by a trio of last year's Freshmen...
...case, why should not an undergraduate newspaper seriously endeavor to bring into its columns discussion of the work men come to college for, and which they so freely debate among themselves? If it be objected that undergraduate opinions on the courses of study they follow are of no account, cannot the rejoinder be offered. "Of what account then are the studies if they develop no worth-while opinion?" And the point may further be made, that it is important for college presidents to know what their students are thinking, even if what they think is wrong. Indeed, it is possibly...
From this common beginning the several stories of what then followed divericate. According to his account, as he had just finished eating he was suddenly placed under arrest, struck twice on the head so that his blood flowed, while the offending policeman deputized several onlookers to take him, unresisting, to jail. He charged that it was a "frame-up." According to the official accounts he was: 1) drunkenly throwing things around in the restaurant, or 2) being fed by two lady companions when arrested; he resisted and the policeman was obliged to deputize others present to aid in taking...
...appeared on front pages. But one newspaper realized that constraint, in the face of enormous happenings, is more startling than noise; that gravity appalls more than exclamation points. This sheet, the Miami Herald, give the Shenandoah story a simple "one column" head and followed this clipped announcement with an account which ran without a break for 16 columns (two pages). Initial letters were used at the beginning of paragraphs. There were no subheads. Rarely does any paper achieve such a dignity in journalism-still more rarely the Miami Herald...