Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Book is dedicated to Professor R. B. Merriman '96. Despite one or two minor flaws, the general appearance of the volume is more pleasing than usual to those who desire a sober and dignified record of a year which is not especially either of these. The editors have done well...
...authorities appear to be alarmed but remain apathetic. It is time something is done about it. Accordingly, we take this opportunity of asking the university authorities to remove from Oxford those who are responsible for the phenomenon, which would be faintly comic were it not apt to produce such extremely unpleasant results...
...shot in the leg but that his wound was not serious. The gun was his own, accidentally discharged during an antelope hunt; the leg was his own, accidentally in the way. It is probable that Antelope-Hunter Andrews quoted Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson's famed remark, as he has done before: "Adventures are a mark of incompetence...
...bidding brokers; brokers chanted a litany of bids & asks at each other, and sweated like the marching monks in Tannhäuser. Visitors in the iron-railed balcony peeked at the madness below for a few minutes, and were politely hurried out by grey-dressed attendants. When Friday was done the brokers were glad that the Exchange governors had decreed Saturday a day of rest. In five days of trading they had handled 21,352,200 shares, thus...
...necessarily acquainted with these instructors; the instructors moreover have a first hand knowledge of their students abilities and short comings. Whether it would be possible or desirable to constitute a board of Faculty Advisors entirely of instructors in Freshman courses need not be discussed here. What can be done is to give both instructors and students definitely to understand that the former are available and willing to discuss the academic problems of the latter. Were the instructor properly compensated for the extra burden thus placed upon him he might in some cases go farther and inquire into the causes...