Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doubt of its success rests mainly on the promise that "American students resent being told with whom they shall eat and sleep." This is undoubtedly true with regard to very small groups, but it is not applicable to societies of two hundred odd members. At Princeton the majority are content with liberty of choice in regard to a room-mate; they raise no formidable insurrections over arbitrary allotment to dormitories and Commons, or over a system of club elections by which their table companions are determined largely by factors beyond individual control...
...economically independent, to fact the fact that, at the outset of his academic service if that be chosen, and probably for some years to come, perhaps as many as ten or fifteen, he must postpone marriage, turn aside from the temptation to travel, live in extremely modest circumstances and content himself with half the stipend of a junior clerk who has gone straight from the elementary school or from the high school to a business house. To speak bluntly, this is a preposterous situation. The youth who has devoted seven or eight years, first to college and then to university...
...solution to the difficulties caused by the dollar's variable purchasing power, Professor Fisher has long publicized a plan which will make the dollar's purchasing power fixed, the dollar's gold content variable. The essence of this scheme is for the Government to keep an exhaustive index of all commodity prices and to change continually the amount of gold for which a dollar may be redeemed, basing this upon the index's fluctuations...
...second stanza was little more than three minutes old when Garrison chalked up a score for Harvard. Putnam's shot had drawn Learnard out of the goal and then with the cage wide open Garrison skated down and dumped the puck in. With a one goal lead Harvard was content to protect its slim advantage but soon had two of its men occupying the penalty box. With only Stubbs, Crosby, and Cunningham on the ice the former college stars tried hard to score but their shots in most instances were wild...
...course we at Technology virtuously deplore the Roman attitude. Yet we wish we might write speeches as does Dr. Lowell and still be assured of large attendance at Technology athletic events, and of alumni contributions to undergraduate athletic interests. Since we are unable to do this, we must be content with the growing interest in the Greek idea...