Word: baserate
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...news that Harvard College is to close Memorial Hall as a dining hall. Presumably the building will be converted to baser uses. It might be given over to one of the minor arts, eating not having thrived there. Or it might be utilized as a chemical laboratory or a hall of social research. In all these and in many other fields it has already attained distinction. Its venerable oil paintings, somewhat dimmed by the vapors of hot soups and coffee, its stained glass windows, more impressive, though less frequently noted, than the stained table cloths, all have served to embellish...
...most recent explosions of Charles G. Dawes. Mr. Dawes has lately been calling everyone who disagrees with him a "peewit plutogog". "Peewit" is merely a polite euphemism, but "plutogog" is evidently of sterner metal. It is obviously compounded of equal parts of "plutocrat" and "demagogue"--doubtless of the baser elements which these two words connote...
Then comes the War, and in that searing horror he at last sees Truth, flaming, glorious, for the instant, in the awakened consciousness of the world. Yet even there, coexistent with the glory, are all the baser human instincts rearing themselves: treachery, greed, lust for power...
...past has again made itself evident in the Columbia-Bluenose battle. Old salts on both sides seem to be salted down with suspicion. This perhaps, is justified, for neither appears above suspicion. In fact the whole competition seems to have degenerated from the ideal of true sport to the baser ideal of winning by any means, fair or fairly foul...
...addition to these baser forms of entertainment each hall has obtained several speakers to address its assembled throngs. In Smith, C. C. Buell '23 and George Owen '23, of last year's football team, and Mr. K. K. M. Leys of Oxford, will speak; in Standish, Professor Julian L. Coolidge '95, and R. K. Kane '22, captain of the 1922 football team and member of last year's winning Oxford crew, have been obtained; while the speakers for Gore Hall will be Mr. T. J. Campbell '12, Coach of the Freshman Football team...