Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan the American Birth Control League conducts a clinic to instruct poor mothers "for health reasons."* New York State laws permit that. Dr. James F. Cooper is medical director of the clinic. He found that uninstructed, desperate mothers had been enduring abortions. Ten abortions for a woman was a common number. One woman admit ted 40. In England the Malthusian League, conducts a similar clinic for poor women. Other countries have them. Those better off, as in the U. S., themselves must collect information...
...inbred, but unalloyed the girl students too, stout hearted. . . scrimp and save and slave for the $250 tuition and living expenses. . . cheapest charge for a bachelor's degree in Arkansas. The dormitory must be completed; the walls are up the boys laid the foundation and did all the common labor. . . $115,000 will finish the interior. . .contractors need money...
...Freshman teams onto the platform against Boston College, Temple, Tufts, William and Mary, Princeton, and Yale. Coincident with the extension of the Freshman schedule, a 1931 debating club will be formed to train Freshman for the league debates, and an organization meeting will be held in the Smith Halls Common Room Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock...
...remembered for his recent lecture at the Harvard Union, writes in the current Harper's Magazine on a subject which is evidently close to his heart the rapport of Britain and America. He approaches the subject, however, from a new angle--not with the old words concerning common heritage and future, and the friendship of the Anglo-Saxo, race-facts, which if they be true at all are too true to need repeating--but with a dire prediction of the consequences should America engage in a war with England. That it would be a large, expensive, and spectacular war goes...
There is something distinctly elevating to be found in such a situation. The importance of football as a game is not minimized. Neither is the keenness of the rivalry destroyed. Yet after it is all over, there remain two universities, bounded by the common bond of education and the cause of enlightenment...