Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German student in contrast to the students in your colleges has no fixed, living quarters and no yearly or half yearly examination. He attends a university about four years, possibly as few as three, possibly as many as seven. During that period he may choose the number and the character of the lectures he wishes to attend and he takes only one, final examination for a degree after he has spent several years at the university and feels himself competent on his subject...
...officials aren't supposed to take money from the visiting team, but four greenbacks may look awfully good to most of them...
...speak to me for days after I announced that 'Massachusetts would go for Smith. So don't be surprised if I pick Smith in a lot of other states from now on. For Mrs. Joe, a saintly woman in her way, is inclined to talk too much. I may have to do something about her later. She will be a handicap to me some day. I can foresee people saying, "Can you imaging Mrs. Forecast in the White House...
...Harvard songs and marches from every dormitory; students rushing their girls up and down the streets in a seemingly aimless fashion, and dozens of hawkers with feathers and souvenirs nobody ever seems to buy, it reaches its high point, and then at the game it is released. It may go off with a loud bang or subside with a melancholy "whoosh!" depending on the circumstances, but in any case the balloon is empty until the next game comes around...
...more can a football team win praise without victories than a student can attain honor without marks. Athletic success is measured by scores just as surely as scholastic is by A's and B's. Whatever may be our attempts to ignore this fact they are patently doomed to failure...