Word: amiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spartan advice that the St. Paul Pioneer Press gives the college senior when it says. "As the college commencement season approaches, it may not be amiss to tell the prospective graduate that education will not give him a sight draft on the world for a good living. The world owes no person a living, educated or not, until he has earned...
Plainly there is something amiss when a society lays itself open to the charge of disappointing its audiences, and misleading, them through their ignorance of its policy. A suggested remedy for this situation is a change in the name of that society, so as to eliminate all possibilities of further criticism. The Glee Club under its present system is rather more inclined toward the choral and the stately anthem than it is toward the rollicking-student song. Were the club to alter its name to that of "The Harvard Chora Society," not only could there be no more doubt...
...which aroused so much adverse criticism last December; indeed, it may be questioned whether the list has been altered at all. The opinions of the ranking Admirals--Sims. Mayo and Coffman--have been entirely disregarded, and their recommendations arbitrarily changed. There must surely be something amiss when Admiral Sims our greatest war-Admiral, and one of the nation's clearest thinkers, refused a medal on the grounds that a majority of the awards have been made through favoritism...