Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope will be just as much of a unit 30 years hence as is the class of 1904 today. The best way to insure this is by allowing the Freshman class to line together as a unit, to find its feet as a class before the later subdivision into houses...
Engineer Court last week was walking home from the building where he tends furnaces when a stranger offered him $10,000 for his ticket. Shrewdly Mr. Court refused, said later to newsgatherers: "I knew then I had something good, so I just held on to it." That night he learned that he had won. Engineer Court's plans: to "take that vacation after all and go fishing," to buy his own home, to provide education for his children, Lawrence, Florence, Floracene, Juanita, Clyde. His other three children are already educated. Engineer Court will not, however, receive the entire value...
...Vermont baggageman. Dr. Davis sold newspapers in his youth, learned telegraphy, worked his way through Dartmouth, later won a traveling fellowship and received a Ph.D. at German University of Leipzig. His malady incurable, he said last week: "Of course, I don't want to go-this is a mighty interesting world and I'm having a mighty good time in it. But I'm no more afraid of it (death) than I am of walking through the door to this study, for I know that I shall have a spiritual body to do with as I please...
Learned, eager Senator White gave $300,000 and undertook to be the first president. He and Ezra Cornell agreed that the starting point of a college in rural New York should be agriculture and that the curriculum should branch out later so that "any person can find instruction in any study." There is an inaccurate tradition that Cornell is chiefly an agricultural college. Founders Cornell & White integrated the State-support idea with their own gifts so that today the New York State College of Agriculture, the State College of Home Economics, and the State College of Veterinary Medicine are part...
...West, fat actress, was told to close Diamond Lil in Detroit last week because the play was "silly and stupid, holding no moral and teaching no lesson." Later Mayor John Christian Lodge relented, declared: "The show will be given a chance to revise itself...