Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many ways, but one of the faults of this day and age is that of carrying things to excess. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the field of statistics. All one needs to discover something of value is plenty of spare time and a Saturday pencil. This may explain the appearance of so many neat columns of figures nestling in the pages of newspapers and other periodicals, but that is about as far as most of the explanations carry. The not result of all the compilations additions divisions and applications or most statistics is nil. However the labor...
...anyone who reads this is interested in Grace Hall let me explain who she is. I'll do it anyway. Grace is a little girl of thirteen who has already had many articles in the papers. Her mother lived in New Jersey. But do not think that she is any relation to the better murderers of that state. She is a poetess of the first water, having already received many prizes, including the Pulitzer (She is an American), the Harvard Advocate Conference Prize, and fifty dollars from the Fleischman Company for the following...
GALAHAD: Enough of his life to explain his reputation...
Having exhumed the private life of Helen of Troy, Professor John Erskine now proceeds to lay bare to the sophisticates the story of Galahad or, as he subjoins, "enough of his life to explain his reputation". There are rumors that exposes of Cleopatra and other famous and lovely ladies of antiquity will follow. Mr. Erskine has struck a rich vein and his investigations are receiving popular acclaim. If he stops this side of sensationalism, and, from the nature of his own literary character one has the right to assume that he will, he will have provided a new and amusing...
...candidates for the 1930 squash team will assemble tomorrow afternoon in the Freshman gymnasium. Coach Harry Cowles and Captain H. N. Rawlins '27 will outline the plans for the season and will explain the tournament about to start for the first year...