Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought for a moment that a man could go to Geneva without power, backing or prestige and break up a conference. I regard Shearer as an undesirable man to have around. He was likely to do more harm than good. He wouldn't stay hitched. You might send him after the cows and he might take a gun and shoot the farmer's pigs instead. I never saw anybody who could get away with a hand-to-hand encounter with a skunk. I don't mean to call Mr. Shearer a skunk...
...qualifies him to speak with authority, and undoubtedly many of the fatalities that reduce an average matriculating class of nearly 1000 to less than 600 at graduation may be laid to the fact that the college had nothing to offer the men in the four categories he mentions. It might be assumed that the eliminations are rather beneficial than tragic and that both students and university benefit from the severing of a connection that hinders both in attaining their real goals. But Mr. Nichols' explanation does not cover more than a fraction of the total number of casualties. Artists, artisans...
...colleges are still far from their maximum efficiency, and many of the men who fail to get their degree might well be saved. Mr. Nichols' article explains the fundamental reason that underlies many failures, but there is no lack of opportunity for those seeking to perfect the educational organization...
Pres. Angell also said he was opposed to the plan suggested by faculty members for having students obtain special permission to leave town for the week-ends, and having them register before leaving and upon their return. Unless conditions were remedied, he added, some such plan might be adopted. --Boston Globe
Trans-Pacific cables have been humming lately with a variety of war-like news from China. Disputes with Russia over Manchuria and revolts on the part of discontented generals fill the columns of the daily press until the most optimistic might well despair of the coming of the peaceful times that will be needed before China can carry out her adjustment with the Western world. Yet one inconspicuous article in the papers of yesterday probably contains more of real import for the future of China than all the fluctuations of her political troubles. That was the opening of the Yenching...