Word: directs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Today," wrote Brother Cleveland, "fraternity folk pretty much direct the affairs of the nation. The White House is 100 per cent. Greek letter, with President Coolidge flying the royal purple of Phi Gamma Delta and the First Lady of the Land wearing the arrow of Pi Beta Phi. Vice President Charles G. Dawes of Delta Upsilon guides the destiny of the U. S. Senate. Nicholas Longworth, of Zeta Psi, is in command of the House of Representatives...
Newspapers throughout the land are becoming fewer and fewer. Many shrewd publishers believe that ultimately there will be only one newspaper in each city of less than 1,000,000 population, but that it will be no less progressive for lack of direct competition. Rather, it will reach out to get the last possible reader in its city and in the smaller surrounding towns...
...worked for the glory of the team, and he has worked as long as the hero. For hours, beneath the direct rays of a beating sun, and when the rains of November were thrumming a monotonous tattoo on the roof of the baseball cage, he has practised for but one thing: that the Varsity might be great. In return he asks nothing; though, when honor's at the stake, like the heroine of almost any novel, he has been ready always to "go the whole...
...Student Council budget system which De Normandie will direct next year, was inaugurated in the fall of 1926 and has proved so successful in the past two years that it has become a fixed institution. The system is intended to facilitate the collection of funds for the various drives which occur during the year, and it is the duty of the Student Council Budget Committee to regulate this system...
...system of educational reform drawn up by a Student Council committee may have much value in some of its individual provisions but as a whole it is liable to be impracticable and based on insufficient data. If, instead of reporting on education in its entirety, the Student Council should direct its efforts to the task of gathering accurate information, for instance, on the number of students who would be willing to dispense with tutorial instruction its labors would have a more definite and reliable value. There are numerous problems in connection with the educational system, the undergraduate potentialities...