Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accordance with the facts, however, to dismiss summarily the attitude underlying the contest, and to pass over it without some comment. Unfortunately there still exists among some of the die-hard alumni of both institutions an antagonistic feeling toward the other University. This attitude may or may not be in evidence during the game, but it can be counter-acted if Princeton undergraduates act as gentlemen after the final whistle, no matter which team wins...
...methods of a hundred and fifty years ago!" And I might add Jesse James. But this is utterly meaningless, a mere hodge-podge of names and inconsistencies, mere guesswork. And nothing is said by way of clearing up this hopeless jumble. Or perhaps he was being witty? Further comment needless, such statements as quoted can be most irritating. They are an insult to one's intelligence. They forfeit any claim to intellectual integrity. Alfred M. Nittle...
...mayor, who himself matriculated in the school of hard knocks, was then asked what was the value of a college education. "Well," was his earnest comment, "I know of nothing that is of more value to an individual in the field of politics or any other field than a college education, and it is most unfortunate that our social and economic system is so out of gear that in proportion to the number there are more A.B. college men out of work all the time than there are laborers...
...crime outside Denver, if its victim had not been left pregnant by John Brewer. The child's outraged mother took her daughter to Denver General Hospital, loudly pleaded for an abortion. That action raised questions of law, medical ethics and social customs which, by last week, had roused comment throughout the nation. Deputy Manager Bertram Barr Jaffa of Denver General Hospital forbade the abortion, a simple procedure in the early stage of the child's pregnancy, until the district attorney would guarantee that the abortionist would not be prosecuted for an operation which in Colorado is a crime...
...present system of awarding scholarships by the various Associated Harvard Clubs permits much room for comment and criticism. Anually when the conclave of alumni from the individual clubs vote the customary stipend from $300 to $500 for Freshmen scholarships, they fail completely to take into consideration the fact that due to the rising cost of living in Cambridge this sum represents only a small amount of the yearly expenses incurred by the needy undergraduate. The result of the present method of disbursements has been that a large number of Harvard Club Scholarship recipients have been forced to leave college either...