Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chase assumes that the latter type is within the meaning of the President when the President says "scholar." I think Mr. Chase has raised a straw man. In opposition he offers a picture which I must say seems to me an ideal secondary school master leading youth to great books by the example of his own love of them...
Encomia of praise to G. Emlen Hall and to Editor of TIME, the former for the idea and the latter for its execution. The Quiz was too marvelous and made this week's reading of TIME (Jan. 22) much more enjoyable (except it was a bit difficult remembering the exact number of Professor Woodruff's zeros...
...radio broadcast than a caricaturist has to draw a distorted cartoon. ... Or supposed statements of the President are quoted in humorous magazines, likewise giving the public wrong impressions. Will Rogers always glibly tells of some meeting he had with this or that President, quoting fanciful statements made by the latter. If others can use the President's name, pictures or statements for the purpose of joking, why should not "The March of TIME" be free to make a pretense of his voice, done in such a remarkable manner...
Despite a stirring rally in the last five minutes of play, the Varsity basketball team was overcome 42-36 by Boston University in the latter's gym Saturday night. Throughout the first two periods the contest was nip and tuck, but toward the end of the third quarter the Terriers began to show their teeth, and succeeded in amassing a 42-28 lead...
...fact that the spirit of scholarship has pervaded our teaching and our scholars have seen the importance of perpetuating the ideals of scholarship as well as advancing knowledge in their own specialty." In the past Harvard has enjoyed a central position both geographically and intellectually. We still hold the latter, but it is the former that we have lost. The task of getting the best men to the University in the past has been an easy one, in the future we will be faced with a more difficult job. Harvard must attract to it the best men in all lines...