Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known as Princeton's break with Harvard, is really a blessing in disguise for a lot of downtrodden football teams and coaches who want some excuse to break off relations with a traditional rival that is hard to beat. There are many such schools and coaches that can now find the way, thanks to Harvard...
...dollars. During the past century the six leading English Universities have been donated 30,000,000 dollars (6,000,000 pounds). The tremendous increase in the number and scope of schools of higher education during the past two decades has made necessary college presidents who could find the funds necessary to the growth of their institutions...
...CRIMSON BOOKSHELF, serving as it does a less variegated public than is served by metropolitan reviews and having at it disposal less space, must meet a unique situation. It has been trying throughout its existence to find a general plan to suit a college public. On its face the task does not appear great. If space is narrow and the public limited, proportions at least remain normal. This would be fundamentally true also if it were evident upon what grounds of limitation, the choice of books should proceed. It is the perplexity of selection that renders the proper solution...
...however, would be the first to realize this a specious device. On the other hand, it can be assumed that the student is interested chiefly in a single type of writing, say fiction, verse, or political discussion or that he is of a characteristic turn of mind and will find anything philosophical or else colorful or perhaps sententious, eminently to his taste. It will at once be recognized that each of these suppositions compounds truth and error. Yet one or another of them may be most nearly right. To find such a course and to pursue with some moderate degree...
...unlovely faces. Hence to marry a lady of title or riches is no longer a passport to a life of honor or respect. Even princes must have careers, nowadays, or their bobbed haired ladies, what with their books and their lectures will quickly eclipse them and they will find themselves stuffed in a cupboard in a dark corner labelled "consort". No, the days when one married a kingdom and only incidentally a lady are gone forever. Moreover it has become customary in these affairs of late to secure the services of Cupid rather than those of the minister of state...