Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into smaller colleges after the fashion of Oxford and Cambridge. And it may well be that salvation lies that way. Certainly the system seems to work in England, for like it or not, English universities leave certain characteristic marks on their graduates. One thing they have which must exert a profound effect upon the undergraduates--age and tradition...
...ancestors bequeathed to us these great rivers, these boundless hills. Shall we murmur at them for giving us too great an inheritance? No, let us blame ourselves, their unworthy children, that we do not rise up, we do not exert ourselves, we are not willing to endure hardship...
...high-powered automobiles, making the 'getaway' easy. "2) The vastly increased wealth of our citizens and especially of the criminal classes, enabling them to buy fast motors and expensive guns. "3) Organized crime which enables the underworld to make liberal contributions to political campaigns and to exert a powerful influence in politics. "4) Delay in the apprehension and speedy punishment of criminals due in part to the leniency and paltering of political judges and in part to our too liberal laws. We do not give enough attention to the selection of our judges and prosecuting attorneys...
...continued his golf. He said he had not changed his June plans: "When I said that I would not go to Houston, I meant it." Upon his fellow New Yorkers' action in presenting him to the nation he made no comment. Observers were thoroughly satisfied that he will exert himself to obtain the nomination no more overtly than he did last week in one action and two characteristic utterances...
...regret that flagrant cutting on his part of spring football practice has made it necessary for this office to place D. T. Lampwick '28 on probation. It is my sincere hope that the action of this office will exert no moral influence on the remaining members of the squad before the coming encounter. M. A. Stevens...