Word: likes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word 'liberal' is curiously ineffective; so are the liberals themselves." Thus Professor R. K. Rogers '09, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology characterized this title and this group in a caustic speech to the members of the Liberal Club last night. "One would like liberalism if it were not for the liberals. In their ranks is a fringe of people which cannot be respected, and whose morals are often of doubtful calibre. As a type they are likely to go to extreme wrath with regard to some things, and then to have absolutely nothing to say concerning others...
...vast concrete spread of 364,000 square feet (more than 8 acres), the largest single uninterrupted floor area yet built. Over this is the dock structure, a cavernous semi-paraboloid building 211 ft. high, 1,175 ft. long. From the high perspective of a flying machine it looks like a peanut or silkworm cocoon. Although the dock was not entirely covered last week, 40,000 people could congregate under the finished portion to watch the ceremony of fastening the first sections of the first airship with Dentist Roehner's gold rivet...
...Drobably will head the Pacific Zeppelin Transport Co. (see col. 3). They mount a platform above the arc of the master ring. President Litchfield explains the ceremonies to spectators and microphones. Dr. Arnstein hands Rear-Admiral Moffett the gold rivet and a silver-plated hand riveting machine, which looks like a dentist's forceps. Admiral Moffett places the rivet in the proper hole, squeezes it with his little machine. The band plays "Pomp and Circumstance." The band then plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the gathering breaks up. That evening there is a dinner at Akron's Portage...
...title and remember his work. He is known for books on mathematics, philosophy, sociology, education. He formerly held a fellowship at Cambridge, but was deprived of it during the War for his writings against conscription, for which he was for a time imprisoned. He says of himself: "I like the sea, logic, theology, heraldry, the first two because they are inhuman, the others because they are absurd...
Lured away by the prospect of seeing an epic gridiron struggle and by a desire to find out what the Yale team looks like under fire, Time Out took a journey to New Haven on Saturday. The epic struggle was there alright and Yale with littler Albie Both in the Starring role looked pretty fine under fire; so the trip was a success...