Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generally admitted that the dry element will have the upper hand in the next Congress, although it will not be so strong as in the Congress which closed two months ago. It is predicted with some show of likelihood that proposal Number Two will pass. The wet members will probably make a hard fight for Number One and against Number Two. Comment from Washington indicates that the wets' chances of success are not very great...
...those which deal with the appreciative or critical, Applied music, that is, singing and playing on instruments, is not offered by the University for academic credit, because this branch, though important in the equipment of a musician, concerns itself largely with physical co-ordination, and does not involve the element of logic which is required by courses in musical theory, as well as by courses in other departments of the University. In one sense every music course is a course in appreciation, because it is of little value to learn the rules and formulae of music unless these details...
They will find, however, that the United States is not as wholly Anglo-Saxon as Col. Harvey may have indicated. Many Americans cling to their British ancestry with increasing pride, but an element of growing numbers has nothing in common with the British but their language. The Germans, Italians, Jews and Slavic peoples who have been immigrating in steady streams, have no national cordiality for England; and these transplanted colonies have failed to accept the prevailing traditions and friendships,--which are essentially British. Anglo-American kinship, once close, has become more and more remote...
Despite the fact that winter weather put the northern team in its element the University baseball nine triumphed over Bates College 3 to 0 yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. It is difficult to decide whether the batters were frozen by the cold, which was intense, or confounded by the pitching, which was on the whole excellent. The game was called in the eighth inning with only four hits scored, three of which went to the credit of the visitors, the University's only contribution being offered in the third by Owen. Both teams did well in the field, Bates surprisingly...
...other quarters the decision is spoken of as " the destruction at one blow of 20 years' work for the improvement of women," " a decision which leaves out of consideration the social point of view, the public interest and the human element," " a calamity to the women workers of the country," " slavery for women who earn their own living...