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Word: fulle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...value of evenings spent in College and a coincident distrust of the glittering allurements of the ball room. The consequent open spaces in the ranks of the stags are slowly being filled by members of the Freshman class who too frequently baffled by their first contact with a world full of strange new opportunities, fall victim to the lure of whatever package has the prettiest wrapper. Two seasons usually suffice to prove to these newcomers that the contents of the carton seldom justifies the effort spent in untying the silken ribbons, but these two seasons often leave ineradicable traces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WHICH I KNOW YOU WILL NOT" | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Despite the storm, the grounds around the Executive Mansion were just as full as on that mid-summer night of nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Exit | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...first eight juniors to be honored with membership in the society comes the election of 32 Seniors, the first election taking in members of the Class of 1929 this fall. Twenty-five more Seniors will be made members of Phi Beta Kappa in the spring, but the full quota from the Junior Class will be chosen tonight. The basis of selection will be made purely on grades recorded in the deans' office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHI BETA KAPPA HOLDS ELECTIONS | 11/16/1928 | See Source »

...steam and all that is needed now is a few passengers. And there of course is the rub, men in college refuse of take much thought for the future. The present is too engrossing, the future, hazier perhaps that it ought to be, is vaguely understood to be full of various unpleasantnesses which will be sad enough when encountered. Most undergraduates have a shrewd suspicion that alumni associations exist for the purpose of collection debts incurred in happier days and they have not yet arrived at the stage where an annual dinner or weekly luncheon holds the essence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE TO GET READY | 11/15/1928 | See Source »

...plans is largely a matter of personal preference. Many parents would undoubtedly prefer to send their sons to an institution where gentle guidance of the proper kind is provided for them. There are, indeed, already many colleges designed to suit this taste. Harvard almost alone has placed its full reliance on the undirected initiative and judgment of the individual student. Because it believes that therein has lain Harvard's unique glory, the CRIMSON joins Professor Morison in preferring the present system of robust neglect to any alternative plan of gentle guidance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MATTER OF PREFERENCE | 11/14/1928 | See Source »

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