Word: enough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when asked what their field of concentration is, answer with a weary shrug. 'Oh, English.' What is necessary is an adviser who at the outset will devote time to explaining thoroughly all the varied possibilities that the freshman may choose: an adviser, let it be said, who has intelligence enough also to know what the freshman ought to take, and regardless of what he wants to take, and who has sufficient persuasion and logic to induce him to follow the advice. Exactly what is the importance of Renaissance history? Or, the respective merits and advantages of sciences and economics...
...banks that fishing is impossible except from a boat. A onetime employe of the late Mr. Pierce says the Brule trout used to be so thick and tame (from hand-feeding) that you could take them with only a landing-net. They were so thick that there was not enough natural feed for them. Stinting their artificial diet made them so ravenous that they would strike at anything you dropped overboard-a cigarette butt, a finger. Mr. Pierce was a sportsman and permitted only flyfishing, with barbless hooks...
Another possible reason for their actions may have be desire to gain publicity. This urge touches many persons and classes in the world at present and it may have a reached into the ranks of college student we doubt whether the students who turned down Phi "Beta" were common enough to be moved by such motives--Indiana Daily Student...
...after thought. But where such an innovation would be possible, that is in such courses that are pot, by their very nature, kept to rigid lines of study. I should like to ascertain the trend of campus opinion, in the hope that, if the plan should meet with enough backing a petition could be arranged for and, God being willing, a short reading period at the end of this semester actually become a reality. The Dartmouth...
...Barpers, comes Richmond Barrett who shows, as it inevitably had to be shown, that the weltschmerz of Hemingway has been accepted as legitimate romance by "callow cynics who were old enough to shave the down off their chins but not old enough to vote." Mr. Barrett is perhaps one of the first to proclaim publicly the fact, for fact it is. Hemingway and his imitators--he is probably the most imitated author now living--have succeeded in glorifying the seamy side of life in such a manner that it appears far more enticing than any other aspect. The present Younger...