Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Little looked forward to Michigan's centennial (1937). He held alumni meetings, launched a building program which might well make Michigan physically the foremost U. S. university. In spite of vast expenditures involved, the alumni seemed enthusiastic. Last week, when President Little resigned, it was a year to the day since he first broached this program. Already alumni have responded. In Manhattan they are raising money for a University Little Theatre; in Detroit for a new dormitory...
...railroad. The lines between Philadelphia and New York are to be entirely electrified at a cost of over $100,000,000. The change from the present system to that of electrification will require six or seven years, for its completion. In carrying out this plan the railroad is looking forward to the time when the problem of providing transportation facilities will be an entirely different matter than it is at present. The electrified system will be adequate to supply New York City with transportation facilities when that city has a population of 30,000,000 inhabitants. On these lines, trains...
...opening paragraph of President Lowell's article calls attention to a fact which disposes of the arguments so frequently put forward by the wets that prohibition is the cause of the general moral laxity of the crime wave and other unsociable phenomenon of the present day. It states, "As strenuous exertion is followed by fatigue, so a violent moral effort, when the cause that produced it is removed, is succeeded by moral lassitude and therewith a turning of attention into very different channels. That this revulsion of spirit should be expected to follow peace is now recognized by those...
Thus, as Pope Pius XI peered out at the pinky snow, he could look forward to leaving the Vatican next winter should he so choose. He might even go to Switzerland for a little decorous tobogganing...
...have demonstrated their speed and accuracy in the three Freshman victories. C. C. Cunningham '32, captain and star defense player, together with his teammate, Potter Palmer '32, has showed stellar form in holding off schoolboy attacks. The scoring strength of the 1932 combination lies in a trio of brilliant forwards. W. B. Wood '32, F. R. Stubbs '32, and W. H. Crosby '32. This forward line, one of the most flashy that has appeared in recent years, has rung up a total of 15 scores in the three games played so far. No team has scored against the Crimson first...