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Word: anyways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people try for the CRIMSON anyway? And having tried, why do they keep on trying once they learn the difficulties and pitfalls that await them? They try, in the first place, for any number of reasons. They may be brought out by a hangover of the preparatory school notion of being a Big Man around College. They may find that curricular work does not demand enough of their time to keep them busy. They may be bored. They may just wander in because they have found the habit of wandering. But once he has started, one of two things happens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEETING TONIGHT SOUNDS CALL FOR ALL CANDIDATES | 11/29/1927 | See Source »

...many soirees being given in town; we wouldn't personally, but then, you might. Likewise there is the theatre, but since there are no available theatre, tickets (no, not even at the drug store on the corner) you will find little solace in it. Anyway, every play here was tried out two years ago in New Haven and was unanimously booed by the Student Council. The movies are open--wide open--if you care for that sort of thing. We recommend with reservation Hoot Gibson and without reservations, Hoot Gibson's horse. And then there is the Public Library; possibly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...give me an idea of the relationship of my various courses and of the end to which they tend. There are two reasons for this: (1) it is not part of our professors' job to give such advice, and (2) no one could do it with my courses anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

Most people associate the battle of Bosworth Field with Richard III's offer to barter his kingdom for a lone horse. As a matter of fact, he lest his kingdom anyway, and Henry Richmond, who picked up the crown from a thorn bush and became Henry VII of England was the man who started Britain on the road to the glory and success of the Elizabethan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/27/1927 | See Source »

...lectures a week and a section meeting in which a short quiz on assigned reading is given. Looking at Freshmen as they are and not as they ought to be it is quickly seen that the reading is done by more than the minority "who ought to be flunked anyway" for the sole purpose of passing that quiz; taken like a doze of salt instead of as food. Notes, if any are unsystematic, unimportant, and useless for review. They are probably not looked at again until the final exam Final grade "D"-disappointment because he "really worked damn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNUS SURVEYS PRESENT QUIZ SYSTEM AND FINDS IT WANTING IN EFFICIENCY | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

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