Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since all Christian bodies from Roman Catholic to Holy Rollers (except the small Unitarian sect) hold that Jesus was divine, it appears that only about 30% of Dartmouth is Christian. Something over 40% are non-Christian theists, and the balance are either agnostics or atheists. All this, of course, on the assumption that Dartmouth students are keen enough to know what they are. The fact that 455 said they are active church members while only 330 subscribe to the distinguishing tenet of Christianity indicates that the boys are not sure what they...
Once Truth is left behind, the section on Beauty rises somewhat in tone and approaches the level on which one expects to find observations on the other fellow's habits of mind. None except the most stodgy Babbitt can do aught but cry "Hear, hear" to an accusation that "the films are the literature of America". So it must seem to one who is convinced that "America has no indigenous literature" and no writers of genius save four, E. A. Poe, Walt Whitman, Hermann Melville, and Mark Twain. The only other Americans mentioned are a few whose "goodness consists mainly...
...Except for the requirement that the applicants must be American citizens between the ages of 21 and 28, and unmarried, there are practically no necessary qualifications. Naturally the knowledge of a foreign language is desirable but it is not essential. There will be plenty of opportunity for men who are assigned to positions to learn the native tongue of the country in which they will be serving. No distinction will be made between men graduated from the College or Engineering School and excellent opportunities for advancement are promised to all men who are given positions...
...Except for the work of the Alberta-British Columbia Survey expedition and a party organized by H. S. Hall '19, Ostheimer will be the only man who has the made any sort of a comprehensive exploration in this region, and part of his work in fact, will involve the substantiation and elaboration of the reports made by these previous expeditions. The report of Hall, for example, in regard to the ice of Bruce Glacier which he traced into a canyon 20 by 100 feet will be followed up by Ostheimer and if possible he will make a more complete observation...
Soon they had broken into the U. S., British and Japanese consulates, robbed, glutted. All the foreign houses except those of Ginling College were looted-the college escaping because a young Nationalist soldier who had a sister studying there arrived with a detachment to guard the campus. ¶ The Japanese suffered most. Several women servants at their consulate were stripped and subjected to carnal violence. The Japanese consul, who was sick in bed, barely managed to escape with his life, saved nothing but a portrait of his Emperor, the sublime Son of Heaven. Later a Japanese officer, ostentatiously without arms...