Word: elie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increasingly been to turn out a more and more dominant type, a type less and less distinguish able from Yale's. I call him the junior executive, and I regard him as a very uninteresting kind of person. The Princeton product may have slightly better manners than his Eli contemporary (softening influence of pastoral surroundings) but I submit that he is approaching complete Elification with the speed of light...
Biological knowledge at New Haven, it seems, is reducible to the limits of the yes and no exam. This is, of course, no reflection on the sons of Eli in their non-academic capacity, but refers to the scientific racket recently exposed at Yale. Fortunate in the possession of a blind scholar, equipped with the necessary intelligence, when the weekly quiz came around the sly Yale boys just counted the taps on his typewriter and with rapid manipulation of their fingers were able to decipher the opinion of the blind Homer on the subject at hand. The resulting standard...
Questions by Watson, Another effort to disrupt the Progressive conference came from Indiana's James Eli Watson, the G. O. P.'s Senate leader. Senator Watson publicly submitted to Senator Norris as the Carlton conference's chairman a set of 14 embarrassing political questions which he suggested the Progressives answer. He asked, among other things: Should the 18th Amendment be repealed? Should the Government undertake the ownership and operation of railways? Should the Constitution be amended to deprive the President of veto power? Should the country adopt the dole system...
...week has passed since the first Eli finally made his top spin under the shadows of Harkness Tower. And the Vagabond will celebrate the springtide in a more Epicurean spirit by going to the Fogg Museum to hear Dr. Spencer's talk on "Emotion in Fourteenth Century Art," at four this afternoon...
...same second, but the Sophomore star gained a yard lead which he held to the end. The time set, 1 min., 39. sec., betters the former Harvard record mark by 1-5 sec., but compares unfavorably with the mark of 1 min., 34 4-5 sec. set by the Eli relay team in its victory over Princeton on Saturday...