Word: middlewestern
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...obvious conclusion to be drawn is that the fraternity system is passing. Taxes have grown more heavy; the revenue from rich alumni has diminished. The Greeks must either become so exclusive as to be a negligible clique, or they must, as already in several large middlewestern universities, turn themselves into mere dormitories open to all. The current depression aided by such awkward schisms as that now opening at Dartmouth, will do much to hurry the transition...
...moneychangers have fled from the temples, leaving official notices plastered to the front gates. Mounting uneasiness among individual and corporate depositors led to runs upon and closures of middlewestern banks, and to such a strain upon other parts of the banking system, especially in the-East, that similar protective measures became universally necessary. The superficiality of this explanation makes it peculiarly suitable for promulgation by bankers and a subsidized press. But to go just one step beyond this "lack of confidence" is to discover the utter incompetence and frequent dishonesty which have graced the laissez-faire operation of the American...
...comment if it were not for ideas and prejudices of which it is all too representative. The writer of the editorial is evidently a supersensitive young man and, like many supersensitive people, he is neither polite nor rational. In the first place he insuits a quite considerable body of Middlewestern Harvard men past and present. This we can forgive him on the score of what is, apparently, an over excitable adolescence. We are surprised, however, that even a Bostonian should have such highly romantic notions about our lineage. This writer seems surprisingly ignorant (for a young man of his type...
...Pyhorrean Sorority Specialty were headliners of the program. At Detroit, first step on the itinerary, while the local Harvard Club was entertaining the club members in one room of the Book-Cadillac Hotel, the Gold Coast and the Pyhorrean quartet were broadcasting from another room over a middlewestern hookup. The Mandolin Club, under the direction of E. H. Woodberry '32, pleased its audiences with a striking rendition of "Dark Eyes...
...following day, E. A. Whitney '17, assistant professor of the Department of History and Literature, and master-elect of Kirkland House, will open the second middlewestern tour with a talk at the Harvard Club of Buffalo...