Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four years are over, the gaunt spectre of divisionals has been met and, in most cases, thrust aside, and now for a brief week, the Senior sits high with the world at his feet: With the Baccalaureate Service tomorrow in Appleton Chapel opens a round of ceremonies, gay and solemn alike, calculated to send the graduate out from the University with a memory of a short hour of triumph to cap the remembrances of four years of struggles as an undergraduate...
There was Coolidge gone off to fill the great open spaces with his silence. And my little roommate began to make noises like this, "Bang, Bang", as he thought of Dead Eye Dick, Nervous Nelly and all of the old gun toting sons of guns out where our gay President is to don his overalls for the summer publicity...
...shooters are: P. R. Lincoln '30, Robert Cushman '30, J. S. Lewis '29, A. H. Donaghey '30, R. D. Fielding '30, C. W. Schaubs '29, J. A. Crockett '30, G. D. Roach '30, L. A. Du Recher '30, L. T. Grimm '39, P. A. Newsome '29, and T. S. Gay...
...skeptic. If there be some, however, who still doubt the practicability of academic training as preparation for important place in the world of active business, they may be referred to still another pertinent argument. At the dedication of the school's great flew buildings on Saturday, Professor Edwin F. Gay, the institution's first dean, told the story of a prosperous business man, an admirer of West Point methods, who came to visit the school in its early days. This visitor, feeling moved to challenge the value of the new enterprise then beginning at Harvard, asked what, apart from...
...Judgement and courage," came the answer, "and that combined and balancing quality which may be called resourcefulness or 'gumption.'" When the visitor then remarked triumphantly, "You can't teach those," the response. Dr. Gay is reported to have said, was obvious: "Does West Point training help in making successful Army officers?" And the visitor replied. "I see your points" Professional training, Dr. Gay concluded, cannot guarantee the production of Napoleons and Lees, but, as in medicine, law, engineering and other professions, so now in business, such education has come to be regarded as fundamental...