Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americanism!" Once in office, the Mayor announced a crusade against School Superintendent William McAndrew, imported three years before from New York City because his recognized ability was needed to improve Chicago's educational system. Mr. McAndrew had vexed the Mayor. He had interfered with the easy-going manner of awarding contracts for school buildings. He had taught that the U. S. Army retreated before the advance of the British on Washington, D. C., in the War of 1812. Roared Mayor Thompson: "I will run that whiskered pro-British stool pigeon of King George out of town!" To do that...
...English reading Room occupies the upper floor of the renovated building. This, it is expected, will be opened next week. Containing over 1800 volumes, this room is intended primarily for pleasure reading; corresponding in this manner to the Farnsworth Room in Widener Library. It will contain, however, many of the books which are required reading for English A. and English...
Creoles is a well-dressed romance of New Orleans in 1850. There is a convent maid who tries to seduce a handsome pirate. By this stratagem she plans to evade a villianous, worm-eaten roue who, in the manner of those times, is on the point of buying her outright from a bankrupt parent. Every now and then, Alan Dinehart, acting the buskined pirate, stamps, frowns and mutters guttural imprecations, showing that the little girl from the convent is tampering with a wicked fellow. The difficulty of her position is that the buccaneer has scruples about innocent girls...
When one has once accepted this extremely politic stand the remainder of his ruminations follow in a much more logical and scientific manner. The root of this presumed evil lies, obviously, in too inclusive entrance methods; therefore Mr. Angell advances various aids to the enforcement of a selective process. Most of those listed by him have been tried with a greater or less degree of success. One thing is certain--Mr. Angell endorses such a pruning of registration lists but while doing so he also realizes that there can be no wholesale method. Each institution must adjust its own mechanics...
...proportion to the amount offered the advisee. During this intimate interval of three days there will be much good counsel spread abroad; the College will belong to the Freshmen for this fleeting period and it is to be hoped that afterwards the Freshmen will realize that in a certain manner they belong to the College and the traditions for which it stands. Each new student will listen to words of much wisdom; he will hear many speeches; it is possible that he will grow very tired of hearing speeches. In the end, however, he will have learned...