Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...referred to the recent Republican fiasco (the nomination of the "unknown" Senator Harding). The comment of the country, she declared was: "Well, they might have done worse." Then gazing directly at her hearers, she proclaimed: "Nominate Mr. Davis and the comment that will ring through out the land will be 'Well, they couldn't have done better...
...bill as a whole; his one great objection is to the early date at which Japanese exclusion is to become effective, a provision which he regards as most impolitic. It was pointed out that there were three principal courses open to him: 1) To sign the bill without comment; 2) To sign it, condemning the Japanese exclusion date, and approving the rest; 3) To veto the bill on account of the exclusion date. Because of the large majorities in Congress for the bill with the July 1 date, the last course would probably result in the veto being overridden...
...This is a decided change from the old system of ex office membership, and is therefore, an improvement. In past years, any accomplishment by a Student Council, such as those of the 1924 body, has been the exception to the general rule of absolute inertia, and has provoked incredulous comment from the amazed undergraduate. Like John Harvard, who until lately had never moved, the Student Council until this year had never acted...
...those who have even barely begun the study of American history the value of Professor Turner's contribution to American scholarship needs no comment. "The Rise of the New West" focussed attention on a dominant factor in the development of the United States which had theretofore been largely neglected by historians. A grasping of the full significance of the frontier in American history, its far-reaching economic effects, its faculty of molding national character, its persistent influence in politics, is an achievement of which any scholar may justly feel proud...
...Board was quite within its rights in rejecting the committee's recommendation, and that their decision was based partly on the representations of so noted a critic as Dr. Brander Matthews, the necessity for Professor Phelps' disclosures is not immediately apparent. They have been the occasion of much recriminatory comment, both undignified and quite purposeless, which might have been avoided by the maintenance of diplomatic and at the same time a thoroughly honest silence...