Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...substituted for lectures, especially in the two upper classes. With the enrolment limited to 300 and an average of only seven students under each professor, Haverford honors will be available to all. The new plan was lavishly saluted during the centenary celebrations last week, notably by Dr. William Wistar Comfort, president of Haverford since 1917, a genial, highbrowed classicist and cricket-player whom the students call "Uncle Billy" and whose precept has been: "Improve the breed of college men by a selective process...
Haverford detects an improvement in its breed by the fact that for the past four years Haverford has beaten 131 competitors in the annual Intercollegiate Intelligence Tests of the American Council on Education. Last week Dr. Comfort delivered in Haverford's tent an earnest, soothing address of the sort without which no academic convocation is complete. Calling Haverford's new plan not a new goal but a new technique, he said U. S. education needs no revamping: "What the country needs is ... a moral quickening ... a stiffer backbone...
...most big transport planes a passenger may tilt his chair far back, but semi-vertical sleep is not easy. Knowing that the U. S. traveler expects more solid comfort, Eastern Air is experimenting with berths just like a Pullman car's. To start, the company installed only two berths in one plane, a lower and upper, complete with reading lamps, clothing nets, hangers. It had yet to prove that passengers, who think nothing of disrobing in a train or at sea, would believe they are safe without clothes in a plane...
...latter part of the scrimmage the Jayvees marched down the field to the Varsity 25-yard line from midfield on a beautiful pass from Gardiner Prouty to Nat Tenney. Dan Comfort stopped the invasion when he intercepted a second Jayvee pass on the 20-yard line and ran it back to the 30. Nothing of note happened during the rest of the scrimmage...
Ferguson (Alexander Kirkland) has a bad day of it all around. His rich fiancée (Margaret Barker, a striking blonde with a thick Colony Club accent) gives him to understand that he must choose between dedicating his life to medicine and research, or living with her in the comfort of a Parkavian practice. At the critical moment, a little student nurse impulsively surrenders herself to Interne Ferguson...