Word: amissions
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...insists on being discontented, "unappreciated," and morose, has a fine chance of keeping young; there is little more inspiriting than the constant touch that the teacher has with the successive college generations of young men that he influences--and by whom he is equally influenced. And is it wholly amiss to mention his long vacations? If he is any good he uses them partly for work, to be sure, but he can work or loaf where and when he pleases and--a boon often denied the business man in summer--he can be with his family and actually get well...
...Chicago Opera Company which gave New York's Metropolitan such a hard fight several years ago. But if the Eastern organization keeps on its way, tranquil in security and prosperity, the Mid-Western company faces infinitely disturbing questions and doubts. A little history will not come amiss...
...this can be accomplished by abolishing the degree "with Honors", and transferring its present requirements to the degree "with Distinction". The English Department, being the largest, has been used as a convenient example; others, such as the Classics, show similar discrepancies, and a general house-cleaning will not be amiss...
...amiss to pause in the midst of all the chatter about bargain and sale books to mention some of the new titles just given to the world. First and foremost comes "Mirrors of Moscow", a cry from the wilderness by Louise Bryant. It will well repay the pleasure of reading and will give an adequate picture of the chief figures of Moscow, which city is at present, Russia itself...
...without textbooks, and every year follows the weary cry of the "Coop"--"all out!" The Cooperative is a venerable institution and the official outfitters to the university; but as the only evidence to go by is circumstantial, and as all of that evidence points in the same direction, is amiss to suggest that the "Coop" take a few more risks in the stocking of their shelves with textbooks in general demand? Then the "plain citizen" whose specialty is not speed would cease to worry about missing out; the four deep, human jam at the counter would be less clamorous...