Word: filled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing of school children is remarkable Schools at the present day pay little attention to the actual art of writing and the children are hurried on to other things before they have their letters properly formed. If writing is not taught, something else must be, and typewriting seems to fill the breach as well as anything. Possibly it may no be many years before students at the University may be attending lectures and examinations in company with a pocket typewriter. The Pennsylvanian...
...mistress. . . . The public was ready to jeer in 1900 when Admiral Dewey responded to pressure and naively announced that he was willing to run for President. Said he: "Since studying this subject, I am convinced that the office of the President is not such a very difficult one to fill. . . . Should I be chosen for this exalted position, I would execute the laws of Congress as faithfully as I have always executed the orders of my superiors. . . . I think I have said enough at this time, and possibly too much...
...need snap courses. They are a necessary and desirable part of the curriculum of all good colleges, and are regularly taken by conscientious students, simply because they fill a definitive need. The label of "snap" in our course surely did not connote that we considered it unworthy, undesirable or even unessential. Spectator does not use it as a term of reproach, most certainly does not advocate that snaps be tightened or their teachers be jacked...
...students take them because they are easy, and not infrequently interesting; and why not? As long as one hundred and twenty-four points are required for a sheepskin, as long as the time of both kinds of students is so completely taken up, just so long will snap courses fill a defendable want in the curricular mart...
...Osborne '26, manager of last year's University track team and present editor of the B. A. A. News, has been chosen referee of the meet, with H. W. Clark '23, assistant Graduate Treasurer, as Marshal, R. C. Floyd '10, former Harvard track manager, will again fill the position of clerk of course...