Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willard, Yale '26: "I deplore the petty collegiate fashion of calling the Co-op the 'Coop'. The former, as at Yale, is more dignified. Moreover, do the clubs at Harvard pick the men of merit or merely the athletic stars...
...item in this department is "news" to everyone. For anything to become definitely a fashion requires time and the scrutiny of not-a-few human beings. The items that follow are presented with the idea that they are news to a large majority of TIME-subscribers. And the TIME-subscriber who detects a genuine new "fashion" (as distinct from a "freak") and reports it to this department, will be rewarded with knowledge that he has performed a petty public service...
...eagerness among publishers to coax Author Asquith toward further indiscretions of the printed word. Her present volume is full of good sense: "Most men and women Eat, Drink, and Sleep too much to keep their minds active or their, bodies healthy." If such iconoclasms on Carelessness, Taste, Fashion, Human Nature, Fame. Character, Politics, had been devised by Mary Smith they would have remained unpublished. Devised by Margot Asquith, illustrated by anecdotes about her friends in the British peerage, their didactic importance is increased; they exhibit entertainingly the workings of a well-known mind...
...first time a Yale team had come out on the short end of the score in a Freshman encounter in six years. Two years ago, however, a Harvard first year eleven, hailed as the greatest in modern Crimson football history and confidently counted on to win in handy fashion over Yale, was swept off its feet and buried under a 24 to '0 score...
Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton, wanted the graduate school, which was originally called "Merwick" in the English fashion, to be a component part of the university. Dean West besought the trustees to establish it as an independent institution. Dean West won, so far as the location of the school was concerned. Cleveland Tower stands on an eminence half a mile from Nassau Hall. But the name "Merwick" was dropped and the Princeton Graduate School is subject today to the faculty, trustees and president of Princeton University...