Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are not many within or without the doors of American education who would follow in the footsteps of this rugged and courageous professor. Every June hordes of successful men come to the universities for the honor of a brief association with prominent academicians, while these latter themselves are not adverse to extra-curriculum honors. From this grand assemblage of notables Professor Anderson stands out, even without his medal...
Dean Pound, when interviewed yesterday, said the appointment had been received from President Coolidge during the latter part of September and that leave of absence has been granted him by the University in order to enable him to accept the honor. He expects the Board to be in session from October 26 to January 1, 1926, and during that time he will reside in Washington...
...baseball cage is to be 160 feet square, considerably larger than the present cage. The latter was built about 30 years ago by the University...
...American university. The progress of body, of mind is stressed too much,--the advance of fancy too little. When the wise men of his time asked Pythagoras his chief delights, he named children and stars. Most university dwellers forget the former while they hitch modernized wagons to the latter. They cannot trifle with dreams...
That college faculties and college students have in the past worked at cross purposes because the former have tended to emphasize the scholarly ideal to the exclusion of all else, and the latter have too often been content to pursue a more or less animal ideal to the detriment of their mental development; while the development of character has been left almost wholly to the student to pick up as best he might...