Word: booked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chiefly by its extension of the time allotted to the process of preparation, the new step is all for the good of the Red Book. The uncertainly in the high places must remain, since first choices must still be made largely on preparatory school reputation. The gain will come in the selection of men for minor places on the Board through competitions made more just by prolongation. Editorial candidates may try their hands at a greater variety of topics than has been allowed them, and the business department will be freed from the breathlessness of lining up advertisements...
With the appointment today of the editors-in-chief of the Red Book, a salutary change proposed this year in the conduct of Freshman affairs will go into effect. Until now, the selection of the editors has been delayed until after the election of class officers in March, with a resultant haste in publication which has often proved damaging...
...publication of the Red Book is one of the most valuable activities of the first year in College. The volume constitutes an enduring record of the class at a time when the sense of solidarity is strongest, and is deserving of the thoughtful care that sometimes is lost in the fever of editorial politics...
Last week he crawled into court and confessed that the pretty brunette has everything that once was his: name, magazine, bank book, glass-topped desk, stenographers aplenty of her own. He wanted some of it back again...
...Author. When Woodward was a small boy in South Carolina he read a book which proved the South had won the Civil War. Such was his surprise when he later learned otherwise that his curiosity, permanently caught, culminated in his study of Grant. In between time, however, he was advertizing man, banker, author of Bread and Circuses, George Washington, and admitted originator of the word "debunk." Patriots, private as well as professional, cavilled at his .debunking of George Washington, will carp at the same treatment of Grant. Of Washington, Author Woodward replied he had made no effort to "show...