Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article entitled "You can tell a Harvard Man, but you can't tell him much: a survey of Harvard University," Hiburn blasts the institution which is known around the Windy City as "The Chicago of the Middle East...
...Every university has a certain amount of ethnocentricity but none, not even Chicago, thinks so much of itself as Harvard," according to Hiburn. "The reasoning runs that Just because Jesus was a Harvard man we are all little Jesuses...
...they very suggestion that four years of school might be accomplished in three turns the significance of Plan C into much deeper channels. Many thinkers besides Stephen Leacock have complained that education, is "catting up" life, that repetition and waste study are becoming a farce. Three years, for example, are too often spent on French and German where two, if efficiently taught, would be equally complete. The problem of Plan C goes hand in hand with a thorough inspection of scholastic curriculum. If progress is to be made in college admission requirements, all down the line of high school subjects...
...students should not support Sullivan merely because he has ceased to make them the butt of his new stories. Much more convincing are "his generosity to the needy people of the ward" and his improvement in the sewerage system which eliminated the danger of flooded cellars. To his job as Councillor, Sullivan has lent a "glamor" which "The Boston Evening American" admits "would take a whole page" to describe and which is rivaled only by B.D.D. Frazier in her own Ward. For the Harvard voter there is but one choice for City Councillor, and if he is slightly hesitant, Sullivan...
...that Winthrop's undefeated football team has cinched the House championship, the last set of games in the 1939 series won't have much effect on the results of the league standings...