Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cornell athletes have dropped dancing. Alarmed lest marathon jazz would become an intercollegiate sport, the athletic authorities at Ithaca solemnly decreed that no undergraduate trying for a team could put his foot on the ball room floor. Among the co-eds is expected a sharp decline in athletic interest...
...will follow. There are less than 100 Rhodes scholars from America--but there are 250 Americans at Oxford. The scholarships, in each case, form a definite nucleus around which to build up a permanent student representation. However, small numbers may almost prove of advantage. At Oxford, there is danger lest the size of the group of Americans defeat its purpose, for the students are surrounded by their own countrymen, and thorough intermingling with the English is hampered. The two Englishmen at Harvard will have no such obstacle to becoming acquainted with the peculiarities of Americans. They may well fear partial...
...peculiar mixture of sound morality and worldly sense, and it seems to us that he wrote and thought in very much the same key as the ordinary American of college age today. What, for example, could be more typical than the advice not to understand title-pages too well, lest it smell pedantry...
...lest the "School for Scandal" breathe secret insinuations, all these social service workers are provided with the best references, have signed promises to absain "Teetotally" from liquor or sentimentality, and are pledged to report any violations of the rules. The slightest disparagement is enough to disqualify any worker from further service. Everything is highly proper...
...ratio of gold to notes and deposits being at present 75.8% and 79% for the New York Bank. Yet we now have too much gold for our own good, and much of our present stock of the yellow metal should be re-exported as soon as circumstances will allow, lest either lack of financial foresight or uneconomic legislation bring on another unsound inflation of American credit...