Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...account of His Excellency Ali Khan Foroughi. Mr. Editor, I have the pleasure to notify your most mistaken honor (!) that Mr. Foroughi is not a prince; he is a world figure today, but he is not a prince. As a leader of the Persian nationalists, we glorify in him. much more so because, he has risen to an international figure, not with a royal ancestry but rather with ancestors who were commoners and he is a commoner today; but with national and international positions that are too exalted to be reached by mere Kings and Princes...
...continues in it or he finds that he does not and comes to college without misgivings. In either case, he will have avoided the aimless and meaningless college years which are the real waste--a waste of mind and spirit, as well as time, for many students. There is much talk now of the desirability of sending boys to college earlier, but I have found that some of the best students are those who have spent some time 'knocking about' in the world after leaving preparatory school...
...problem of the adventurer is very much akin to this problem of the artisan. One of the greatest questions confronting the deans of Harvard Yale, and Princeton is that of undergraduate-aviators. At Princeton, the students are no longer allowed to have airplanes. At Yale and Harvard, undergraduate flying clubs flourish under very lukewarm official approval. In both communities, the clubs have become exceedingly popular. Their members are adroit and expert aviators, but, for the most part, lamentable scholars. The academic mortality of members of the flying clubs far outruns that of the pedestrian students; and naturally enough...
...unimportance of minor details like these. The Marx brothers are distinctly the show, and by all means see them now for they may not be in these parts for a long time to come. The censor may even get them for making the audience laugh too much...
...vast body of Western graduates, and to the even greater body of Big Ten associates the presence of the University Band in its traditional role will satisfy a definite need. It is not so much the individual pride in a swinging mass of musicians as merely a deep seated satisfaction at seeing Harvard in full regalia, the instinctive desire for the war paint and tom-tom of inter-collegiate and in this case intersectional conflict. Goodwill is distinctly of practical value and in this action the Student Council has made a strong investment...