Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know . . . there is a common feeling that there are certain 'honest grafts' which may be indulged in with impunity, and certain people are said to have practiced it and escaped. With that ... we are not concerned...
...Association last week, when he learned that Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone had formed a cleaning and dyeing business. Mr. Capone, quixotically, and so incomprehensibly to many competitors, has been trying to consolidate the earnings of his haphazard youth and establish an estate. Mr. Hostetter, however, considers him only a common assassin. But, companion at arms is what Mr. Capone's respectable business associate, Morris Becker, Chicago cleaning and dyeing baron for 42 years esteems him. Said Baron Becker last week: "I now have no need of the State's Attorney or the Police Department. I have the best...
Inquiry of college presidents, deans of men, heads of schools of journalism, and students active in publications, reveals that this sort of thing is, fortunately, not very common in American colleges. Only in a few cases that have come to my attention do college authorities indicate that they approve of censorship in any form. On the other hand, almost without exception they appear to believe that student editors should be given complete authority, but authority accompanied by the complete responsibility that must accompany lawful authority in every activity of life...
...thus, while the captains and sergeants depart with a clean slate, there is no little gloom among the shops sartorial, tonsorial, and cosmetic that flaunt their signs around the Common. The great public continues its patronage, but, just as Harvard has said it will not employ their services, so Boston's police report that they need them...
...success or failure may depend on his solution. To attempt to keep him from gaining such valuable experience by a rule that sets a uniform limit to a quality as varied as capacity for work is to give substance to the impression that colleges pass all students through a common mould and turn out only impractical theorists. The Northeastern rule is admittedly only a tentative step, but even as an experiment it sets a dangerous example...