Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next morning. It was only a pirate's chance. We run. Then we get out of the blockade and thank God for our escape when we meet an 18,000 ton cruiser and were examined by her for two hours. I was a Norwegian captain, but the name of my ship was wrong. It was my hardest examination, and it took a bottle of 100-year-old brandy to help me pass...
...little afternoon exercise. Asked why he had run away from home, he answered. "I wanted to meet Buffalo Bill. All German boys read about Buffalo Bill. He gave me confidence when all my teachers said I would be a burn. So I sold my pet rabbits, changed my name, and started for Hamburg. I sailed on a Russian ship, thinking I would reach American. I landed in Australia and found that the world is round...
...snap course", target of not a little opprobrium in educational magazines and dean's offices, has at last come into its own. Naming thus a new kind of course that will be part of the reorganized Columbia curriculum, an action vaguely suggestive of giving a dog a bad name, Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of the college announced at a dinner of Columbia alumni that in his judgement "snap courses serve an excellent purpose." Such a statement, it would seem, would have few farther flung associations than that with the cultivated tastes of the student vagabond of Harvard. But closer examination...
...Home State went, so went the country, in the good old days when men shouldered torchlights and platforms were beer barrels. And among the indicative Home States the name of Ohio was for the political boss like to that of Abou Ben Adhem. Till Sunday...
Building proposals have before this caused a sharp split. One need only name the War Memorial controversy which is still raging or the objections raised a few years ago when the new Business Schoool group was undertaken. Ordinarily, perhaps, the raising of a new building is purely a practical matter: a need exists for a building, say a new lecture hall, and the building is put up without dissent. It is when the practical clashes with an ideal, or with that immaterial substance known as sentiment that there arises disagreement, and sometimes bitter controversy...