Word: insistency
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...joys of editorship. The first one is righteously indignant with the Boston American's attack on President Lowell, but its grammar is defective, and it fails to accomplish its object, for like the paper mentioned it "does not argue, it states." Again, sententia, if the editors really insist on using a Latin word where an English one does better, is a word of the first deciension (sententia, ae, like mensa), and consequently it is not only hard on the President, but a violence to the English and Latin tongues when we read, "the small sententia of a Cambridge paper...
...there occasionally appear strong plays that have "gone wrong." "Outcast," which had its Boston premier at the Hollis Theatre last night, is just such a play. It should have ended at the close of the third act, but, evident deference to the box office, which is still apt to insist that a play should end happily, resulted in a fourth act of stereotyped reconciliation and happy conclusion. That the play was not ruined by the anti-climax in this act, is proof prositive that it is a drama of exceptional power. For, in spite of its improbable ending...
...have combined against the International Marble Workers' Union, because the latter would not join with them in an agreement with The National Marble Dealers' Association. This agreement would mean that the Dealers would patronize the Marble Workers exclusively in all construction work but that the Marble Workers should not insist on union-cut marble. Since labor conditions are very bad in some of the quarries the Marble Workers could not agree to this, nor to other unfavorable terms of the agreement. Accordingly, the other unions would not work with them and continue to strike, with the exception of the plasterers...
...that is on ice), the editors of this sheet wish to inform them that they can't do the job well enough to trim the CRIMSON hockey team in a regulation game under catch as catch can or any other code of rules. The only restriction which we will insist on is that all of the Lampoon's ice shakers be bona-fide amateurs and that they have never played summer hockey for money...
With due respect to the economists who insist that the task, under free competition, will fall to the most efficient and that such a result should be welcomed rather than deplored, we are impelled to say something in regard to the marketing of tutorial talent at this season of the year. Granted that organizations external to the student body now control most of the tutoring field because of superiority over the Employment Office, is the condition a desirable...