Word: herd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred are mentally capable of obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree, it may very, well be that the high rate of insanity among college students is due to the fact that their minds are composed of a finer, more delicately tragic material than are those of the common herd; that while they are capable of more Intricate and more subtle machinations, they are also more subject to derangement. If this is the case, the present college population may be divided roughly into two groups--those who have come safely through Divisionals and are still able to count...
...comfort himself with the reflection that the ambitious climber is charged a pretty penny for his purple. In fact so steep is the price that many honest laboring men find it more advantageous to refuse glittering but costly honors, and remain unadorned but wealthy members of the common herd...
President Coolidge, having received the letter, and having been advised that Mr. Pinchot's Prohibition passion had been mixed with senatorial soup, could endure no more. He, indignant, wrote to the Senate of the U. S. a letter which caused that august herd to snort and trumpet like so many hippopotami surprised at the feeding hour...
...days" was the reply, almost an eager one. "It's been very interesting. I've been talking to several students." (The word sounded a little odd, but he used it quite calmly.) "And they're a curious herd" he continued. "Very prepositional...
...While many of the boys of today are feverishly putting on the golf green, Cal was happy in pursuing to its lair the sportive potato. . . . He early became an adept in divorcing the lowing herd which winds slowly o'er the lea from the raw material which makes for butter and cheese...