Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...although it has not fulfilled the ideals of its founder, the Union has been and is a great factor in the life of the University. The mere fact that almost 2000 men find in it their only club is justification in itself. The only question open to dispute is whether those in charge have used the best means at their disposal to make the Union of greatest service in accomplishing its two-fold purpose...
...once he was associated with The Trumpet of Freedom, which had a circulation of 500 a week, " except on fair-days, when it reached 1,000." He went on to give thanks for his splendid welcome, stating that " no Britisher talks of Americans as foreigners " and that " the real founder of the British Empire as we know it was George Washington." He then outlined the troubles of Europe and professed himself confident that the dark clouds would roll...
...three subjects which have been chosen for essays in the $1050 Babson Prize Essay Competition, have recently been announced as "The Forecasting of the Price of Wheat"' of "Cotton", or of "Lumber". Mr. R. W. Babson, founder and president of the Babson Statistical Organization, has given this money for the purpose of stimulating the interest of university students in statistical economics, business forecasting, and the stabilization of our economic life...
Henry Noble MacCracken,* President of Vassar College: "A cane which once spanked Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College, when he returned home after running away, was presented to our institution. This cane will be used by the students in leading cheers and songs...
...Alfred Winsor '02, founder of the "Winsor system" in hockey and coach, of the University hockey teams from 1902 until 1917, is to return to the University once more as head hockey coach, it was decided last night at a meeting of the Hockey Advisory Committee...