Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College: "Some men amused themselves and my white puppy, Riff-Raff, by throwing sticks for the latter to fetch out on the thin ice of Sunset Lake [Vassar campus pond]. Once the stick skittered far from shore. Riff-Raff, scampering after it, saw too late a hole yawning in the ice. He set his feet, slid into eight feet of water. The men on shore idly discussed how best to save the floundering, choking puppy. Not so Celeste Corcoran, 20-year old Vassar senior. Treading lightly but swiftly, crawling the last few yards...
...with representatives of particular businesses in which the men are interested. This is particularly true of men who are interested in entering the manufacturing field locally, as there is a definite plan of cooperation now in effect between the College Employment Office and the Associated Industries of Massachusetts. This latter organization will undertake to absorb from the colleges a limited number of graduates each year...
Most striking is a clause making fathers responsible for payment of the taxes levied on their bachelor sons, if the latter cannot...
...turning up at backwoods settlements, bearded, his pockets bulging, his underclothes gone. The latter he had used up for gun wads. His pockets contained bird skins, sheafs of notes, manuscript. He was the naturalist, John James Audubon, whose grandmanner personality made credentials unnecessary. He had a family down in Kentucky which he supported as best he could in the years when, at one with the wilderness as few men were before or after him, he was "unknown" in the U. S. He took his magnificent work to Edinburgh and was made a member of the Royal Academy. He executed...
...spirit behind the suggestion is unmistakable. What Oregon is probably forced only to recommend because of the limitations of her state charter and what Professor Root wishes is the transformation of the first two years of the college course into an elimination contest with highly limited enrolment in the latter two years and a constantly extending tutorial system which should largely supplant the old course and lecture method...