Word: digestion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decline. In spite of the horrible stories which are written to lay bare the inner Soul of the present day college student, he is really a man of infinitely greater intelligence and moral character than was his father a generation ago. So at least thinks the "Literary Digest", which has been at some pains to find out just what a representative group of college presidents think about their undergraduates...
...results of this collection of opinion, as printed in the "Literary Digest" for June 14, are those with which ninety-nine per cent of all university men, long wearied with the somewhat captions Jeremiads of an older generation, will enthusiastically agree. In fact a majority of the presidential observations might almost be termed flowery. From the unbroken string of epithets and abuse which was fashionably applied to the youth of the land five years ago in the moral depression following the war, the weather vane of opinion has swung around to a point which almost indicates approaching tirades against...
Furthermore, it may free us from absurd congressional uttering. An example typifying what we are becoming forced to digest mentally as outbursts of intellectual brilliancy from congressmen, is the cry within the last few, days for a second limitation of armaments conference. Imagine the president being called upon to invite under the present circumstances Japanese delegates to discuss a further limitation of armaments! It would not be surprising to hear of some representative calling for an appropriation to finance a conference of scofflaws who might find a way of persuading a prominent delegate from Florida to the Democratic National Convention...
...workman he said "Mais non!" He came home at 12. Why should his children come home half an hour earlier? The working classes voted solidly for a 12 to 2 lunch-hour, giving papa a chance to see his child and the child a chance to eat and digest the daily pot-au-feu, broth with huge chunks of sour Parisian bread. A strong minority voted to continue the present system. Thirty thousand families did not vote at all. Teachers became alarmed lest they should be required to work more than their statutory six hours a day. There were present...
...UP?A sharp cross-section of the Carolina mountains, trying to digest the late...