Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students are no longer in danger of rustication, and few have even heard the word, but members of the faculty and alumni can name friends whom that strange punishment overtook. Mr. William Seymour in his recent speech before the Theatregoer's Club told of a play, "Rustication," written by C. T. Dazey '81, which dealt with that punishment...
...Hindu and his kind, but these advertising experts usually contribute little or nothing to the capacity of their patrons for understanding people. As a matter of fact, the scientific analysis of personality and character has just begun, and any attempt to commercialize the slight knowledge we have runs the danger of being premature and harmful...
...mind of the Secretary, it was not only scandal, but also a danger; for he has often made clear to his fellow-countrymen that his home state, California, was most susceptible to attack...
...passed by 280 to 129 votes. The Government contended that it would prevent war, Colonel L. C. M. S. Amery, Secretary for the Colonies, declaring that enlargement of the base "would be one of the most friendly acts we could perform to the United States, which is in severe danger in the Philippines. It would insure peace in that part of the world for another 100 years." The Opposition, headed by ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald, was of the opinion that the existence of a first-class naval base at Singapore was sure to lead to warfare between the white...
Although Mr. Alger's point on the danger of untrained leisure is very well taken, he makes two mistakes. The small group who do not sit on the bleachers is not so small as he thinks, and it is growing by leaps and bounds. Neither is the five-hour day, of any thing approaching it, an accomplished fact as yet. Let Mr. Alger count, if he can, the number of new golf courses and tennis courts for workmen as well as employers, let him find out from any art institute the amazing number of courses in drawing offered within...