Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adventure, for popularity. Economics follows up in detail the consequences of men's desire for wealth. Philosophy traces the results of our desire to know ultimate truth. Biology tells us what will happen, if we yield to our urge to understand living matter. So it is with each great branch of study. Each acquaints us with the results of human desire in a particular field. Social ethics compares all these desires and traces their results so far as is necessary for a man to orient himself among them and to decide what he, individually and in his group, intends...
...whole athletic situation would be greatly relieved if Harvard could have an alumnus with a sound experience and a broad knowledge of athletics to serve under the Athletic Committee as its representative in the day-in and day out administration of athletics. He would have general supervision of all branches of sport, would advise as to the appointment of coaches, try to build up a permanent system of coaching and training in each branch of athletics, coordinate the different branches, strengthen the weak spots and see that the strong ones are generally maintained and generally reinvigorate Harvard athletics and hold...
Last week Representative Branch of Liberty introduced a resolution into the Florida House of Legislature that reference to any woman as a "flapper" would be considered an offense against the dignity of the State. The resolution was laid on the table, relegated to the calendar, and eventually deposited in the waste basket! It was felt that Representative Branch was not being as serious as he might be. Actually he was being a little too serious, for the abomination of the word "flapper" scarcely merits a state action...
Words like "flapper", "vamp", "necker" and what not insult countless ears besides those of Representative Branch of Florida until they come to be completely disregarded and overlooked. Thus, a nourished, they at last die out, but such protests as this suggested bill in Florida will only glorify and strengthen them. There are always people to cry for the right of the citizen to express himself in his own choice...
...meeting of all men who expect to compete in any branch of University track this spring will be the signal that rings up the curtain for Coach Farrell's season at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Immediately after the meeting preparations will begin for the longest and most strenuous campaign which the Crimson runners have had to face in several years...