Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Think of synthetic steaks at five cents a pound, eggs, fresh from the factory, and milk, its supply unlimited by the number of cows, piped to your room direct from the laboratory. And even if we can't bring ourselves to think of this, we might consent to take our food in pill form until the profiteers cease from profiteering...
...perfectly just in pointing out that a city with no "negro problem" has no right to take up a "holier than thou" attitude; but when he belittles as foolhardy the man who risked his life in defence of law and order, we can only regret it; and when even by implication he makes out a lynching mob as in any degree less contemptible than their victim, we cannot join issue with him too quickly. SYDNEY FAIRRANKS...
...Julius H. Barnes, speaking for the Institute for Public Service. The college tuition fee does not represent more than a small part of what each student costs the institution, being kept at a merely nominal figure so that a liberal education may be within the means of poor, and even of self-supporting, students. As a result, sons of the moderately well-to-do, and even of the rich, receive what, in effect, is a gratuity. That is one of the many anomalies of democratic institutions. Mr. Barnes suggests that in making their canvass the "drive" teams confront every manifestly...
...vein of paradox is glimpsed beneath these suggestions, it should not blind us to their essential wisdom and justice. In one sense the cause of any individual college, or even of a group of colleges, is undoubtedly an individual or a group interest. But these are perilous days, in which little is apparent in the public prints beyond brute passions and rampant selfishness. The World may well linger over every manifestation of the more human forces in civilization. --New York Times...
...heavily depleted by the war and is still very small, with only 276 members. The Junior and Sophomore Classes of 553 and 672 are fairly large, being swelled by the return to College after the war of many men who formerly belonged to this year's Senior Class, or even last year's. The Freshman Class with 537 is normal, though not unusually large; but the total of men spending their first year at the College is significantly big. For those registered as Unclassified are all newcomers to the College; they include men who transferred this year to Harvard from...