Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...even the guarded commendation so often found in foreigners, certainly none of the enthusiasm which may always be picked up from foreign writers concerning American achievements and American heroes, is anywhere discoverable in the writings of this native American, with his alien taste...
Nowadays when one encounters people who are in a reposeful state of mind about anything, they excite one's interest, even though they may not be either congenitally or congenially interesting. Among the few groups that are resting easy in a serene consciousness of good work well done, with not much more to do, is the fraternity or the sorority, of those who feel that they have at last helped to make the colleges safe for the young man. That a college is a wild and wicked place, and that of all colleges Harvard has been for years the wildest...
...another in sheer exuberance of good feeling. If a man is so fortunate as still to possess the ingredients for cocktails, he will be calculating in disposing of them. There will be a few, a very few persons that he will deem worthy of admitting to cocktail fellowship. And even with them he will feel a niggardly reluctance gnawing at his heart as he distributes the dividends from the shaker. --The Graduates' Magazine...
That no tuition fee, in any department of the University, has been adequate to cover the per student cost of operation, even in the normal times preceding the war, as a fact arrived at from a long and exhaustive investigation just completed by the graduate committee in charge of the campaign now under way to raise for the University and endowment fund of fifteen million dollars...
Although the investigation has included all figures up to the present year, the most significant findings have been considered by the committee to be those of 1914-15, that year being chosen in order to avoid confusing factors arising from war conditions, for even though tuition fees in the College and several graduate schools have since been raised, the tremendous increases in operating costs far offset this and the year 1914-15 is thus judged to be the best for normal analysis...