Word: directs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midst of the great volume of discussions and criticism of the student apathy toward time-honored customs and activities which loomed large in the college life of earlier days, it is a little remarkable that no direct handling of the problem of what traditions might be dispensed with and what are strong enough to warrant their continuance has been tried. The custom which is losing undergraduate support has been left to a process of slow dying which is painful to many observers who cherished...
...attempt, however, at such direct handling has been made by the Yale student council recently in connection with the small vote east in the election of the committee which supervises the annual junior class dance. In the future at Yale all elections for committees in charge of traditional activities must muster two-thirds of the class as voters if the custom is to be continued. The ruling provides both a check upon undergraduate feeling toward the custom and a means of eliminating it if interest is lacking...
Aside from the minor points of added strain on the teaching staff or an unwelcome distinction between the excellent and mediocre student, the plan is mostly unfeasible because it would be in direct contrast to the main purpose of the secondary school. There has been much regret evidenced recently by educators at the disappearance of the liberal college under the increasing pressure for specialization. In laying a firm foundation for later years of university training is found the most imminent and pressing problem with which the preparatory school is faced. The most practical objection to the Choate plan...
Married. Aga Sultan, Sir Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, 52, "direct descendant of Mohammed," leader of 12,000,000 Shiite Mohammedans; and Mlle. Andre Josephine Marie Leonie Carron. 31, Parisian modiste; at Aix-Les-Bains by Playwright Henri Clerc, Mayor of Aix. Though the Aga Khan is so holy that spoonfuls of his bathwater are peddled among the faithful, he owns one of the finest racing stables in Europe, plays roulette, shoots craps. In delicate compliment to her husband, Mlle. Carron wore a wedding gown of her husband's racing colors (emerald & chocolate) banded with weasel...
Louis XI was no picture-book king. He had "a long ugly nose . . . a pair of oblique eyes too deeply set, thin lips, a powerful jaw . . . a jutting chin;" was less than middle height, bald, thin-shanked, shabbily dressed. A great talker himself, though direct and blunt, he required others to be the soul of brevity. Like many autocrats, he preferred plain people to the aristocracy. His favorite hat, high-peaked, shapeless, banded with leaden images of saints, was famed. But once at least he ordered a new one. He wrote to his General of Finances: "I have forgotten...