Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gaining ground that education is finished at too advanced an age, yet a considerable number of parents whose sons are prepared for college and pass their admission examination at 17, postpone their entrance for a year. This is almost always a mistake. The youth is taken out of the normal current of his life to do something else, and does not usually regain his pace. Statistics covering a number of years, show that the students who enter college young are on the average better scholars and incur less serious discipline than those who are older. No doubt this...
...Waistlines rising perceptibly toward the normal waist...
...said that women ruled in America he did not mean that their direct dominance was apparent on the surface. Their dominance, he explained, was a matter of indirection. For America more than in any European country today, they have succeeded in tempering and charging man's minds and the normal masculine outlook on the world. He believed that the great need of America is "the emancipation of men, rather than the emancipation of women...
...CRIMSON, adds his share. And more than a possible misapplication of Harvard's latest educational experiment would seem to have been avoided. Fears that all Harvard would migrate to more agreeable climes have been pretty well blasted by the crowded condition of the Library and the very normal term-time appearance of the Square; Boston hostesses and Yard cops will testify that things have been "quiet" in a social way; and the bootleggers have been heard to complain of the lack of conviviality registered at the University...
Student agitation has now exceeded all normal bounds and the mass meeting stage is reached. After numerous suggestions and petitions have been over ridden, the most beautiful, the most popular, the most industrious of all Bryn Mawr May Day Queens is privileged to sit down in a chair for which honor no one will deny she has walked enough...