Word: northeasterners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days after the great Dr. Hideyo Noguchi died in Africa (TIME, May 28) under the hot sun of northeastern Japan a woman was spading her wheat fields. Her hands were squarish; the palms rough, the backs faintly ridged with thin veins. Her face, rugged and serene, showed her 50 odd years...
...attendant aches, pains, chills, prostration, incapacitating the victim for months. Before achieving the dignity of a disease with a name, it had often been confused with typhoid because the germ resembles typhoid bacillus. Since its recognition 430 cases have been reported, 18 deaths; only nine states in the extreme northeastern U. S. appear to be unaffected...
...Northeastern University has adopted a new and interesting method of meeting this situation by means of a point system that grades each activity at one, one and a half, or two points and allowing every man a maximum of three. Among the "major" position that count two points are the editorships of the holders of lesser positions on the papers and class executives are given a lower rating. The system is provisional and alterations will be made if needed, but it was felt that some check was needed on the excessive demands of the extra-curriculum organizations...
...attempt to keep him from gaining such valuable experience by a rule that sets a uniform limit to a quality as varied as capacity for work is to give substance to the impression that colleges pass all students through a common mould and turn out only impractical theorists. The Northeastern rule is admittedly only a tentative step, but even as an experiment it sets a dangerous example...
December 19--Northeastern...