Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...universal storm of protest as revealed in now extant newspapers seems to show how deeply this fatal restriction of the chief incentive of American business was resented, and how widespread was the resultant depression. None, when faced with such evidence, can deny the probability that this psychological catastrophe may have broken the spirit of an emotional people, and left them defenceless against material disaster; but much hard work remains to be done after the manner of these brilliant discoveries before all the mists of the past are blown away, and the aboriginal American is seen and understood by the modern...
...authorities are only too ready to give the serious scholar time to reason. Dartmouth takes up a plan where by the students who show steadfast purpose and definite promise during their first two years are placed under a system that embodies the leniency of the English tutorial system with none of its restrictions. Harvard has long allowed men on the Dean's List exemption from classes. These are surely definite steps towards the fostering of voluntary thought...
...doing no selling at all, because his buyers will be, like the poor oysters of the Walrus and the Carpenter, all gone. The seller, like the Carpenter, will one day make a beautiful speech and wake up to find himself speaking to thin air, because 'oysters there were none...
...Although none of the three University crews entered in the American Henley in Philadelphia Saturday came through a winner, the performance of the Second and 150-pound eights was eminently satisfactory from a Crimson point of view. Coach Stevens' Second boat lost to powerful eights from Syracuse and the University of Pennsylvania by the narrow margin of a length, but finished ahead of Navy and Princeton. The Crimson 150- pound oarsmen lost to the undefeated Red and Blue crew, but led Yale, Princeton, and Columbia across the line...
...them in red ink) of the points of law involved in the cases. In the margins, also, we stick our obstracts. These abstracts are condensations of the facts and decisions of the cases that we make when we read them, and are on onion paper with a gummed edge. None of this procedure is required of us; it is merely a method that has been found by experience to be the best aid to a mastery of the subject, and its results are chiefly useful in reviewing...