Word: ditto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heroic scale of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The bigger these pictures have gotten, the simpler have been their basic sentiments. The vast Tibetan spaces of Lost Horizon enclosed the theme BE KIND (Capra's own description). Mr. Deeds went to town to preach LOVE YOUR FELLOW MAN (ditto). Among the marbles of Washington, Mr. Smith found the meaning of LOVE YOUR COUNTRY...
Dunster has a record dance Saturday night with admission pegged at four bits Ditto for Leverett...
...repute, Welleslcy girls spend all their time looking for husbands, but you can have fun with them just the same. According to current folklore, Wellesley girls average prettier but dumber than Radeliffeites. Smith is ditto, but more fun to spend a week-end at. The same goes for Vassar. Bennington combines plenty of art, girls in slacks, lots of liquor, and absolutely no rules--Benningtonties can and do stay out all night. These last three colleges are out of the question unless you own or can borrow...
Birthdays. Hoosier Humorist George Ade, his 74th; with a quip: "This birthday isn't very welcome, but I guess it can't be avoided"; George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, his 46th; ditto: "Darned if I get any fun out of birthdays...
...suppose they have for dances, necking, and 3.2 beer, which anyway are old, but incidental pastimes on any college campus? How much more constructive it might have been to mention that our Student Senate is a model which self-governing organizations all over the country have copied, ditto our fine and unusual fraternity system...