Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their Majesties King George and Queen Mary drove around the corner from Buckingham Palace to Victoria Station. The morning was cold and misty, but a large crowd was abroad to cheer its Sovereign and his Consort. Many times the King was obliged to lift his "bowler" in acknowledgment of the ovations. Ten minutes later, the boat train with a royal coach attached steamed out of the glass-roofed station, taking their Majesties on their first and well-earned vacation since the accession...
...Student has used it to strike a sure deft blow against all that is illiberal and cheap in American college journalism. It is a fact that many college editors prostitute their intellectual standards and their literary skill to "exhorting application to study, denouncing unmoral students, people who do not cheer at basketball games, radicals and Freshmen Who Walk On The Grass." When modern education allows such inanity to flourish about its inmost shrine there is some reason for Mr. Upton Sinclair's rabidness...
...exists for the purpose of breaking down sales resistance and inspiring languid salesmen. Let the college editor go and do likewise. Let him spend his time puzzling out ways of selling his college. Let his editorials be inspirational, exhorting application to study, denouncing immoral students, people who do not cheer at basketball games, radicals and Freshmen Who Walk On The Grass. That is the proper path for him to follow. The New Student...
...inasmuch as I do care about Harvard for its traditions of culture and intellectual valor and do detest its tendency for cultivating cheer leaders and cheering mobs; inasmuch as I do discern in the attitude of its President an ignominious desertion of the best ideals of the humanities for the "ideals" of big business; and inasmuch as I do consider such an attitude and philosophy as an effrontery to culture, not only in this continent, but in all continents, I protest and ask that my protest be filed. A. Phillipoff...
...whom the Council chooses for University cheer-leaders, declares the CRIMSON, the undergraduates "'will not respect". And yet these same undergraduates have themselves elected the members of the Council and entrusted to them the best management of University affairs. It is difficult to believe that undergraduate opinion can in any way be represented by the editorial entitled "Jumping Jacks" in Friday's CRIMSON. Thomas R. Pennypacker...