Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 "isn't" instead of "aint...
...their immediate predecessors to uphold the desirability of compulsory chapel. But of those who each year recorded their vote for the supremacy of Phi Beta Kappa, how many, when confronted with the choice between curriculum and extra-curriculum earlier in their college careers, actually chose the former? It isn't necessary to quote statistics to prove the answer...
...receipt of a postcard bearing unfavorable news. It is only one of the cruelties of fate, this disappointment of the student who is led to take a course by the false impression that it is going to be a snap, and is quite overcome by finding that it isn't, but that he really is expected to know something about it. We all, I am sure, deeply sympathize with those poor mortals who find their burdens so great and their minds taxed so heavily by the requirements of certain courses that they "shrink from a continuance of such a demand...
...that college literary magazines, if they are not cheap,--and the Advocate is never cheap,--tend to be pale and bloodless things, useful for the purpose of enabling their writers to see their work in print, but of little general interest to the college commu- nity. Isn't it possible that this is because most of the contributions to college literary magazines are written, not to entertain the undergraduates and their friends, but to meet the requirements of some course in English Composition, and are subsequently turned over to the editors because they receive professional praise? An excellent theme...
...player, has gone even farther, and suggested that a fumble should merely count as a loss of a down, except on the fourth down. The argument both of these men use is that so much time is necessary to learn how to hang on to the ball that there isn't enough time left to spend on the technique and development of the game. I am opposed to such a change, and I believe most other people feel the same. Such a change would detract attention from the fundamentals of the game, and a football team that doesn't know...