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Will you kindly furnish a definition of the word "stooge" which I see frequently in your columns? I can find it in no dictionary...
...movies to be shown will furnish a survey of the film from 1895-1932. Foremost among the directors in this brilliantly creative period were D. W. Griffith, Thomas H. Ince, Mack Sennett, and Frank Powell, and one production of each will be presented...
Secretary Mullins next announced a new General Achievement Test, which will be given along with the aptitude test. The achievement test is so new that Secretary Mullins was not sure what it would be like, except that it would "furnish the participating universities with an instrument that will help them distinguish sharply between mediocre students and those of real promise...
...much weightier conviction. In President Conant's own words, "The belief which underlies the entire project is that there will always be a few young men of exceptional promise, but without adequate means of paying for a university education, to whom it is well worth society's while to furnish every opportunity." National scholarships understood in this sense perform the two very essential functions of conserving and developing our intellectual raw material. As soon as additional funds are available, more states will send deserving students. No mean praise is due President Conant for consistently formulating and pursuing a policy...
Adding the physical to the metaphysical in its philosophy of life, Harvard steps out ahead again with the announced future establishment of a dating bureau, which will for a nominal sum furnish intellectual pabulum for the undergraduates, said pabulum to be called from the various bluestocking institutions of the immediate environs...