Word: intently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though she kept her scholastic standards high, tall, energetic, forceful Miss Chapin was equally intent on giving her future social leaders character and poise. To that end she kept a hawklike watch over their lives, both in & out of school, developing an organization and discipline rivalling West Point's. Each Chapin girl wears a uniform, light or dark green depending on her age. Student proctors note and punish such lapses from decorum as running on the stairs. Each day begins with prayer, hymns, the chorus-recitation of a Bible verse by the whole school. Banned on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...
...grow musty and meaningless through the ignorance of an indifferent student body, and the celebration of an occasion which is as fraught with historical significance as the coming tercentenary should be more than a round of ostentatious ceremony and speech-making led by the faculty and the alumni, with intent to loosen the purse strings of generous graduates. It should be a matter of great interest and pride as well to the students who are very much a part of the oldest college in the country. With a new constitution, which it is hoped will obviate the former tendency...
...cent of the American people who pay all the income taxes to the Federal Government have a new worry. When will Uncle Sam descend on the taxpayer who may have thought he was making an longest but who now must prove its count that it was no fraudulent intent or go to jail...
...cases involve for the most part a difference of opinion as to what constitutes lawful deductions. They raise an interesting issue. If, on the best advice obtained from lawyers and tax experts, deductions are claimed, is this fraud? The courts have held that fraudulent intent must be proved. This means that a conspiracy will virtually have to be demonstrated something that rarely happened in income tax cases...
...present the name of the Liberal Clubs carries considerable prestige outside of Cambridge, yet within the College the Club is regarded by many as a group of shaggy-haired opportunists intent on utilizing the Club as an instrument to forward their own pet schemes. These beliefs are fostered by the diverse political complexion of the Club's membership, ranging from these who would pursue political will o' the wisps to those who wish to carry out a constructive political program free from the taint of the soap-box- orator...