Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole the so-called facts seem hardly worth all the excitement they have created. Perhaps it is because a Vice-President is the man to expose what may turn out to be a menace some more articles are to come we must remember-that explains the wide comment; Vice-Presidents are thought to be so harmless. This is not Mr. Coolidge's way, however: he is a man of ability, and if the case can be proved against the stalking Reds, he will do it. We respect his determination to hasten to the rescue of our fair neighbors, his chivalrous...
What is apt to cause comment, however, is the fact that on the same day the Senate succeeded in another attack against the new naval appropriation and opened a drive upon the supposed "armor ring". The Naval and the National Security Leagues were criticized, and the whole idea of building up the present strength of the navy was decried...
...actually better than its predecessors. Such is the view of President Sills of Bowdoin College, who writes: "The undergraduate of the present day is, I am sure, as good as any of his predecessors". The Yale Daily News, in discussing the Yale Promenade, says that -- "From every side comes comment not only that a 'pleasant time was had by all', but that the pleasant time was achieved without the assistance of abnormal accessories. . . . Conditions in regard to dancing, costumes, and other objectionable features were far better-than they have been for some years. Possibly this is an indication...
...read Mr. Abrams' comment on the increased cost of education last Saturday with much interest, and as he presented the chief objections to it so clearly, little need be added. Indeed, I am writing this to show my agreement with him rather than to add to what he has already said...
Students in large courses which embody several sections often comment upon the difference in marking and instruction readily discernable between any two of the various divisions. Not infrequently undergraduates change sections in order to "get a man" under whom they "can pass"; or less often transfer to a section where they "will learn something". A similar phenomenon is also noted in the case of half-courses, one of which continues the work of the other. Although the work of the second semester is usually started with practically the same subject, the identical lecturer, and about the same students...