Word: mende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clasticity of the quota system as it is now organized is witnessed by the number of men who either last Summer or in the Fall had had a change of heart with regard to concentration and were permitted by the various departments concerned to mend their mistakes. The need for such generosity would to a large degree have been obviated if the proper choice of a field of concentration had been made in the first place. When the present Freshman Adviser system, with its absolute incapacity to guide the undecided student along the paths most advantageous to him, has been...
...tongue about. He begins with the observation that "Maine is a masculine Riviera." He progresses to Bismarck's solution of the Irish question, to wit: send the Irish to Holland, the Dutch to Ireland. The Dutch would soon make Ireland a garden. The Irish would soon forget to mend the dikes. Finally he reaches the heart of his cynically expedient philosophy by recalling that he started out as an eye-ear-nose-&-throat man, but soon shifted to psychiatry because "the poor have tonsils, but only the rich have souls...
...have the students select those needing such a course would be impolitic and impractical. Instead Professor Packard might himself attend lectures, and choose the delinquents; his censure would have the force of authority and should agitate the offenders into some effort to mend their faults...
...revival of Carmen with Rosa Ponselle. Soprano Ponselle had her chance (TIME, Jan. 6). Last week an audience was agog over another Carmen who sang in Swedish while the rest of the cast sang in French, who lost the heel of one slipper, casually attempted to mend it, finally hurled it into the wings and hopped with one shoe on & one shoe off for the remainder...
...show your rottenness by attacking Free Masons; for those of France indeed are different from those of England & the U. S. . . . As to the dark pages-you refer to the Revolution, when after 175 years of licentiousness, tyranny & starvation, you refused to mend your ways & when the people threatened to make you, you, led by your foreign queen, her lover, & the King's brothers, called the foreigner into your country to fight your people. You, the nobles, clergy & their partisans, took English gold & passed over to the enemy in 1814 & 15, taking up once more arms against your country...