Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maze of rumour, detail, and guess-work surrounding the farm congress now being held at Washington, come two interesting facts. They are stated by no less a personage than Mark Sullivan in the New York Evening Post...
...delegates at the Princeton Disarmament Conference addressed the meeting as follows: "I don't know much about this disarmament question and I guess most of you delegates have probably come here without any definite ideas. It seems to me then that we ought to look at the Washington Conference just as if it were a football game;--all we students want to do is to cheer for the right side". When one learns that this was pretty generally the sentiment of the meeting, one is inclined to be a little sceptical of the talk about college men as leaders...
...friends. Of course, the girl is quite "impossible" with her "gentleman friend" and her manner of captivating all men with whom she comes in contact. There is a scandal--complications--but in the fourth act the play ends, as most audiences wish and as this one could easily guess, happily...
...from the Boston Post deploring a "restricted Lord Bryce". Why did the Viscount address fifteen hundred Harvard students when he might, have spoken to--well a mere modest million of Post readers? We do not know and it is none of our business. If we were to hasard a guess it would be that he preformed to "confine his words to a limited number of hearers" and just why he would not do so we have yet to discover. "Was it not a mistake?", asks the Post, as if the Viscount or the University were in error. If Lord Bryce...
...return of examination books written for the April "hours" brings into renewed prominence that eternal bug-a-boo of the college student,--the ambiguous examination question. Confronted by the testimony of successful and flunking students alike, an impartial observer must conclude that ability to "guess what the instructor is after" plays all too great a part in the determination of one's mark. Instructors are led through long familiarity with their courses to refer to subjects in terms which even the most faithful student may not fully understand. Some even intentionally make questions indefinite with the avowed purpose of giving...