Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessity, value, and proper behavior of proctors there is no one better qualified to speak than the student who has just taken an examination, and done rather poorly. Those thoughtful gentlemen who wander about the fringes of the multitude, banding out extra paper and maintaining an attitude of strict neutrality, mean nothing to the student whose eager hand can hardly wait to disclose a mind packed with information. It is only to the unfortunate who sees the lower gulfs yawning before him, and averts his eye in dismay, that external matters are of concern...
...advent of frankness and the departure of chivalry, both characteristics, generally speaking, of the present age, are the targets for Miss Cabot's shafts. The cause of our lost manners, our disrespect for women, has been discussed before, and though it has in most cases been done in a sensational, non-scientific manner, the subject is perhaps of more significance than such Elinor Glyn articles would lead one to believe. There is no doubt that frankness has its virtues, and no one would care particularly to bring back the old days when there were unmentionables galore, "worse than death...
...probable outcome of the Reading Period is generous in its attitude towards the student body, but it, is a generosity not entirely misplaced. There can be no question whatever, to anyone with a representative circle of acquaintances, that in the weeks since Christmas there has been more work done in Cambridge, in and out of the library, than has been customary at such a time. Whatever the casualty list from the examinations may be, whatever the attitude of the average student may have been, the Reading Period has not been taken as a joke...
...done more to show that the pedestals of the great are sandstone rather than granite, no one has been more active in lowering the portraits of emperors and potentates so that the public may first gape and then conclude that man is created equal after all, than Dr. Emil Ludwig. Napoleon, Bismarck, William H. Lenin, Washington, Wilson and so forth have all been exhibited on the point of Dr. Ludwig's free-flowing pen, and the world has admired, marveled, and pondered a few historical inaccuracies...
...expected that future business magnates of the nation can survive the ordeal of climbing out from between warm blankets and dressing in the unfriendly atmosphere of refrigerator-like cubicles. No one will deny that the days of asceticism and pioneering are over, and that something should be done for these modern martyrs to the rigours of a monastical degree of temperature...