Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until the first year men who have been playing football, soccer, and touch football enroll in the various winter sports, the latter will not be able to count on their full rosters. Men on the Freshman football squad, and soccer players, will have a respite until December 5, but touch football players must start some new sport Monday...
Scouting had in recent years done away with snooping. Non-scouting seems to have caused the reappearance of the latter practice among non-official supporters at least. And even where there has been neither scouting nor snooping, there has been suspicion...
Doctor Meiklejohn attacks the latter belief, saying that it is unfair to the individual for the college office, having at hand no better facilities for judgment than those which modern education possesses, to determine which students are deserving of the advanced course, the special class, or the work of the honor group. It is one of the goals of the Experimental College to provide the faculties with the touchstones to make this division justly. "No observation," says Doctor Meiklejohn, "of what people are doing under certain conditions can be conclusive as to what they would be capable of under radically...
...philologist then there would be ample justification in requiring from the most brilliant candidates a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon. An A. B. Degree in English, however, concerns itself primarily with the literature of the country and not in its etymological sources. Those desiring to become proficient in the latter should be allowed to do so; those who do not should be allowed the freedom of choice...
Time was when the Show stood in the public consciousness as a fashion mirror and a society assemblage, more than as a gathering of horses. In those days there were more horses in use, less society. The latter, formidably fortified with new apparel, converged from many cities; festivities started with a dinner at Del-monico's;*everything was eminently haughty. It was well worth the public's money to see such sights. It still is, no doubt; but last week most people went to see the horses...