Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cancer causes one-tenth of all deaths among grown-ups in the U. S. Yearly from 100,000 to 125,000 people die here from this dis ease. It presents itself in four main ways: 1) epithelial, in which there is no rodlike framework; 2) scirrhous or hard, in which the framework predominates and the tumor is hard and of slow growth; 3) encephaloid or soft, in which the cellular element predominates and the tumor is soft, grows rapidly and often ulcerates; and 4) colloid, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three are also called carcinoma. There...
...noticeable that most great English histories were writton by men whose work in other fields was their main object in life. What American would be able to sit down between novels and write and Outline of History. How many American college graduates carry into their life of later years any enjoyment of the things they studied in college? Perhaps one reason for the precipitancy with which our college men are prone to forget the literature and art they studied and for the most part enjoyed in their undergraduate years, is the erratic system of studying which is too often favored...
...Effective College." The Association of American Colleges convened in Manhattan and devoted three days to discussion of "the effective college." Dr. Frank Aydelotte, President of Swarthmore College, made the main address. Dr. John H. Finley of the New York Times, Henry Allen Moe of the Guggenheim Foundation and Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of Columbia were other speakers. Dean Hawkes recommended to his large audience of college executives and professors "a detached, scholarly and impartial study of religion" for college students, a "clinic on creeds." He drew an analogy between instruction in religion and that in the fine arts...
...main detriment to education in the south," he said, "is, of course, the negro situation. But we are still going through a period of reconstruction, South Carolina was the most trampled on state in the South, and received a hard blow. Nevertheless, our small colleges are making rapid progress, and producing some powerful intellects...
...University team concentrated on two main points. The first was that of the present system of athletics, including the money making power of football, supports one of the fundamental elements of the "democratic ideal", namely, inter-class and intra-mural sports. The second argument in their defense was that the publicity ensuing from success in sports is not necessarily an evil but other a natural reward for the person who reaches the top in any line of effort...