Word: fourteen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When it is also realized that there are now over fourteen million foreign born in the United States, the necessity of immediate and drastic restriction in order to preserve the national homogeueity will be obvious. Whatever may be its benevolent humanitarian desire, this country can no longer afford to endanger its own future as a united nation by a blindly generous welcome of all those who present themselves at its gates. The more instinct of self-preservation alone must force a reluctant closing of the doors...
Like examinations the undergraduate usually takes his professors as inevitable, and the consciousness that they are devoting the best of their years to the service of youth is but rarely gained. When a professor has been connected with the University for over fourteen years, however, when he has made a host of friends and admirers among his students, the knowledge of his intention to retire from the staff comes as a sharp reminder of all that he has done for the College and its members. And since Professor Turner has carved for himself an enviable niche in the hall...
...Laird, Association Professor of Psychology at Colgate University, to come out with the results of his latest researches in the field of insanity. Dr. Laird apparently has no scruples about publishing his gruesome findings. Without a single quiver of sympathy, he asserts that whereas only one man in fourteen hundred and one woman in eighteen hundred outside universities are subject to mental disorders, the percentage within academic walls is a great deal higher; to be accurate one out of every thousand...
...annual dinner of the Phillips Brooks House Association held last night, fourteen officers made their report for the current year...
...gratification to the University; and its decisive victory over the Yale 1927 team was the only fitting climax for a season of remarkable success. The records show victories over most of the best teams of the preparatory school class, including St. Paul's, which had not been defeated for fourteen years,--St. Mark's, Exeter, Andover, Princeton 1927 and Dartmouth...