Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This dream of a Utopia of comparative silence between midnight and the first noise rumbling of the milk wagons at the break of drawn is probably impossible to achieve--but it is a pleasant dream for hose few precious, hard-gleaned moments of sleep...
...attention has been drawn to a recent editorial in The Times in which you seem to adopt a slightly cynical attitude toward comments made in my annual report for 1927-28 on withdrawing coaches from the direct supervision of intercollegiate games. The subject is not a new one and perhaps does not require any detailed discussion at just this moment. I venture, however, to remark upon one of two considerations which affect the whole matter...
...recognize this taste among graduates, a taste that also exists among other undergraduates, it is indeed doomed to joint programs and dwindling, however sophisticated, audiences. The educational program that Dr. Davison has so nobly pushed ahead is indeed a commendable step, but if the public is still to be drawn in anticipation of collegiate glee, a compromise must be forthcoming...
Other directors and officers will be drawn from the banks acquired and from the firms sponsoring the corporation. Approximately $500,000,000 of the stock will be kept to provide for national expansion. Announcing the plans the organizers said: "For several years the opinion of bankers through the country has been becoming more and more favorable to the principle of group banking. . . . [It] is common in Great Britain, Canada and continental Europe ... is peculiarly adapted to American conditions as it offers the advantage of maintaining a large degree of local independence and local contacts through the maintenance of the individuality...
...perfectly justified outcry that has arisen from the large number of students affected by this change has drawn attention to both the clerical inefficiency of the department and the unadvisability of having any divisional examinations so soon in the fall that a student has only time to register and attend the first meetings of his class before he finds himself taking a series of examinations. The difficulties which have arisen from a haphazard method of notification can easily be eliminated in the future but the question of whether the dates of the examinations have been wisely set raises a more...