Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousands of women and children literally starving to death. We found hundreds of destitute families living in crudely constructed, bare, board shacks . . . (New York Daily News...
...final number, the outgoing board of the Lampoon has produced nothing startling: but that is as it should be. As soon as the Lampoon startles anybody, it is certain to find itself in trouble. A humorist should never startle his public. Whenever that happens everyone (often including the humorist) get very angry without quite knowing why. It is only when the dust of recrimination has subsided that some people (sometimes including the humorist) discover the cause of their anger. The humorist has managed to be funny...
...editorial the outgoing board make the following remarks...
...average undergraduate the Board of Overseers is known only in name as an august body powerful in the regulation of the affairs of the University and in safeguarding its interests. The student being in direct contact only with the effects of the administration, is likely to have at best a vague knowledge of the actual causes and agencies through which these effects are brought to pass. Being among the trees he is not likely to see the woods until he has passed through. So the student while he is directly in the field of jurisdiction of the Board of Overseers...
...Thus the Board of Overseers presents itself in reality as an eminently practical, influential and well balanced body. It is not composed solely of portly financial magnates with heavy watch chains or of spare intellectuals with none, and the geographical distribution of its members serves only to make it the more effective. The common interest is the welfare of the University, in the regulation of which the machinery is apt to run so smoothly that the under-graduate scarcely notices...