Word: following
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daily Princetonian cites the action of the University as an example which the Princeton faculty is urged to follow. After explaining the nature of the new ruling and its experimental nature, the Princetonian goes...
...step is greeted at Columbia as being similar to but more worthwhile than other ventures which have brought the University a certain publicity since last fall. Parts of the Columbia Spectator comment follow...
...Europeans from whom we Americans are descended first heard of the great stone-built cities of the tropical New World from the Spanish conquerors. Columbus, on his fourth and last voyage, in 1502, just missed becoming the discoverer of Yucatan when he failed to follow a canoe believed to have been filled with Yucatans, which he met off the coast of what is now Honduras...
...Bowdoin. Bowdoin College has become introspective of its own accord. President Kenneth C. M. Sills and his faculty are not complacent about the present character of their institution. They are looking ahead. They have adopted a program of self-analysis for the institution to follow and evolved a ten-year plan of popular reforms. Alumni, faculty and undergraduate committees are in action. Last week the undergraduates made public some answers they had given to 88 questions of their own devising. Such performances, wherever conducted, seldom bring anything startling to light. They would never be held if there was any likelihood...
...well-known how Mr. Mencken sticks stray figurative pins into the viscera of the age. And in the pricking he seems sometimes to follow an aimless aim; which is perfectly all right because he himself will retort that most purposes are eminent purposeless. And what he says he believes to be true. That all too human adjective belies his paradox...