Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have a sound desire for cultural improvement, are not mercenary. Another point: "... Recently . . . Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick announced that there was less drinking in the colleges than before Prohibition. He cited Yale and Stanford. . . . The News and the Stanford Daily refused to accept the intended compliment. ... I do not know about New Haven but with regard to drinking in the colleges throughout the country I am afraid you are right. ...* You have finished with that bugaboo of conventional respectability which is today hobbling hypocritical legislators who vote 'dry' and live 'wet.' This to you is nauseating...
...afraid that you American citizens would know more than I about how the League of Nations affects the United States but it has had a tremendous influence on my own country, Canada," said Sir Herbert Ames, who was Treasurer of the League from 1919 to 1926 and, previous to that, a member of the Canadian parliament, yesterday, when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter...
...Vagabond wish to recommend to those who are interested in the growth of socio-political thought a lecture which is to be given today at 10 o'clock in Emerson M by Mr. Arthur Baker Lewis the District Secretary of the Socialist Party. True the Vagabond does not know exactly what Mr. Lewis will speak about, but he can hazzard a guess and so probably can most of his readers. As for other lectures, he would mention the following...
...celebrated sense of humor. But there is a plague of touchiness. The lot of the humorous writer is an increasingly hard one. If we are merely mild and agreeable the critics cry at us: 'Have you nothing to say? Have you no fierceness, no anger, no satire?' They little know, Whenever we do say anything, it is considered propaganda, or else a breach of taste...
...Vagabond, poor mortal that he is in spite of certain academic proclivities, has hidden away in his mind a few problems and questions which from time to time come forth to irk him with their barbed amorphousness. And among these is the desire to know the identity of the seer who made the immortal observation that "it never rains but it pours." Could he but discover the name of that sooth-sayer, the Vagabond would--at least not wonder any longer and be able to give credit where it is due when the truth of the remark is manifestly clear...