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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tobin should be commended for this wise assertion. By merely indorsing these two phrases (decreed incorrect by arbitrary standards) the citizens of the United States may claim great credit for themselves for their considerable advance toward perfect expression in language. Moreover, professors and literati, who have hitherto gazed haughtily down upon the rabble from the rarified heights of correct speech, would suffer a righteous degradation. Yet it is never too late to learn, and these latter might in time master the new idiom. It would certainly be amusing to hear the ingenuous members of English A rebuked for using...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SENSIBLE REFORM | 2/24/1921 | See Source »

...Service Bureau was organized in 1915 as the result of experience in work of the kind, which had proved very successful wherever applied. It was founded in the belief that there were a large number of students in the University who, on account of faulty preparation, retarded development, or incorrect methods of study, were not reaping the full benefits of the scholastic work of the College, and who, if they were given needed advice or aid for a time, would be put on their feet so that they could help themselves in the future. The Bureau, in other words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHI BETA KAPPA TO RESUME SCHOLARSHIP AID SERVICE | 1/21/1921 | See Source »

...list of awards in the Toparian Club Trophy Competition given out by the office of the Schol of Landscape Architecture, and printed in yesterday's CRIMSON, was incorrect. Third place was awarded to Harvey Hiram Cornell, 3G.L.A., of Los. Angeles, California, not to K. A. Gardner '16, 3G.L.A., as was announced. The mistake made by the School of Landscape Architecture arose through wrong identification of plans, which were handed in anonymously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mistake Made in Toparian Award | 1/14/1921 | See Source »

Yesterday's announcement that trials for the University wrestling team would be held on Friday and Saturday of this week is incorrect. The trials are for the Junior and Senior wrestling teams, and not for the University team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Team Wrestling Trials | 1/13/1921 | See Source »

...This distorted idea of the fact is probably due to an historic idea that the north is dreadfully cold, and to the fact that the present-day school geographies are usually incorrect on this point. Greenland, however, is an exception to the rules as it has a heavy rainfall and a high altitude, both of which factors tend to produce heavy glaciation. Nevertheless, on the great Canadian Archipelago there is no trace of glaciation for the past thousand years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STEFANSSON DISPELS COMMON THEORIES OF HARDSHIP IN ARCTIC | 12/21/1920 | See Source »

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