Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prospects for the University team are better than usual this year. Besides Captain J. W. Filoon '29 and O. L. Winston '30, returning letter men, there are many premising Sophomore candidates, including Phillips Finlay '31, E. B. Murphy '31, W. P. Arnold '31, and J. B. Maldwin '31, Others who should do well are R. B. Covel '29, S. R. Johnson '29 and D. M. Proudfoot '29. The squad will start practice immediately on the Belmont Springs course, where 24 playing privileges have been reserved...
...school to meet the University's reading examinations. Although the new rule takes no serious burden from anyone's shoulders, it does show the decided position of the faculty in encouraging the completion of elementary work in school. Given time, this policy will reap its reward in Freshmen better able to seize the advantages of college...
...first time in half a decade people talked breathlessly of the chance that David Lloyd George may "come back." Certainly the odds show that he may quite reasonably expect to hold a balance of power between Laborites and Conservatives. None knows how to exploit such a situation better than the little Welsh attorney; the only major politician who has had stamina enough really to survive the war. Last week his energy and fire easily surpassed that of any rival; and both Laborites and Conservatives were in deadly fear lest the man who won in 1918 by promising to "Hang...
Pressed by a newsman to declare his pet aversion, he said, "Fools, perhaps. Scripture tells us 'Suffer fools gladly,' but Chesterton goes Scripture one better with 'Enjoy fools uproariously.' " His favorite novelist is Warwick Deeping, his favorite novel Sorrell...
...murders followed. One John Sprigg was shot through the middle of his wig. A scholarly hunchback, whom children called Humpty Dumpty, sat on a wall, had a great fall, was found dead. Then came the slaughter of the suspects−an annoying device which S.S. Van Dine used to better effect in The Greene Murder Case. Shrewd readers should be able to pick the culprit among the two remaining suspects; stupid readers would do well to flip a coin...