Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liberal arts" work is now cut to about two years, and the course of instruction is still in process of dissolution. In a little while it will have no reason for existence except to afford and introduction to technical and professional training. This far from being a cause for distress, out the to be a source of congratulation. Mankind makes advance by shedding delusions and when we get rid of the idea that a college education is connected with wisdom or has any fixed content worthy of not and respect, we shall have cleared out minds of just so much...
...Here is a real opportunity for the scholastic world of this country to combine and offer this monument to their elder sister in distress. Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Amherst have come through splendidly. Let not Harvard fall down with her share". Thus Mr. Whitney Warren, architect of the new Memorial and speaker at the Union last night, characterized the importance of the University's Louvain Library fund drive which starts today...
...good-will and gratitude can, to a very large extent. The logical way to express this gratitude and make it permanent is to do for the ex-service man the identical service he did for us. He fought overseas to save the people at home from slavery, poverty, and distress; why cannot we, now in turn, fight for a Government Ex-Service Man Employment Bureau which will save the ex-service man from slavery, poverty, and distress by giving him work or finding work for him if he happens to be unemployed...
...overlook the put--the definition of which is too well known to bear repetition--will see that the genial humorist has apparently hit upon a profound truth. Whether this was evolved from painful personal experience he does not say, but it is hard to believe otherwise when his distress is so evident. Indeed, were it not for the fact that Mr. Morley is himself a college graduate, and surely far-seeing enough to dodge such literary boomerangs, one would be tempted to take him seriously...
...Gillette Safety Razor Company addressed a crowd that filled the Trophy Room of the Union to the doors last night. In outlining the system of marketing employed by his corporation, Mr. Hickey, who is head of the German branch of the Gillette Company, described the existing economic distress in that country and prophesied a complete financial collapse due to the depreciation of the German mark...