Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the general student body may not be alert enough to realize it, Widener Library has been making steps forward in the last few weeks toward the eventual goal of providing genuinely adequate service to the undergraduates. Not the least of the factors making for improvement has been the realization on the part of those who are responsible for Widener's destiny that the students are vitally interested in their collection of books, a realization that has been brought home to the staff with dramatic force by the knowledge that the Student Council is considering looking into the entire situation...
Rather the fact that the Princeton massacre was the necessary outcome of steady improvement and of patience under the stress of alternate disappointment and hope requires emphasis, and the fact that a well-drilled team playing a hard, consistent, alert game as a team has brought fruition to the ceaseless effort of Dick Harlow, victory to the undergraduates, and a book to Harvard's stock in the national football market. Now two more animals remain to be vivisected: the Mule and the Bulldog...
...this first section is the declaration: The business man wants intelligent college graduates, with minds trained to make careful analyses, alert and critical minds able to make reasoned judgements. The academic standards of Harvard College are high, and the student who maintains high scholarship throughout his four years may submit convincing testimony of his intellectual capacity...
...Mitch" has the alert flexibility of mind and purpose, and the ruthlessness which have gone to make up many a Dictator. Of the 90 seats in Ontario's House, the Hepburn Liberals held 72 at the time of dissolution. "Mitch" claims he will win 70 or more, but last week in Toronto best guesses were that he will get about 50, thus emerging from the polls with a five-year majority, but hardly with the overwhelming majority a Pocket Dictator craves...
Back in the U. S. the alert Bowman went into the coffee-roasting business, impulsively sold out when it occurred to him that candy lozenges like Life Savers would be a great success if flavored with coffee. Intending to work out his idea at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh, he was surprised to learn that it had been tried before, was hopeless. But Bowman was getting nearer to his destined specialty. On his way to Detroit to take a job in an automobile plant, he met a chewing-gum salesman who was working the ''butcher...