Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About 68 graduate students will receive the degree of Doctor of Philosophy this spring, it was announced at the same time at University Hall. This number shows an increase of ten over the same figure of last year. The 250 men who are due to receive A. M.'s at commencement, compare with the 156 who attained the distinction a year ago. These figures cannot be taken as final, however, for a considerable number v. aspire to the degrees fail to attain them due to the final examination barrier...
...governmental system is that "it works." Inquiry is seldom carried to the point of how much better it might work if differently constructed, or how long it would continue to work if subjected to a strain such as European governments are frequently called upon to resist. In the June number of Harper's Harold T. Laski, English student of Political Science, both examines the practical workings of the American political mechanism and raises the question of its adaptability to the unprecedented strains which the future is liable to bring forth...
...following review of the current number of the Lampoon was written by Dr. W. L. Rice '23, instructor and tutor in the English Department...
Under a bright cover of appropriately aquatic design, the pages of the current "Briny Deep" number of the Lampoon offer a half-hour's entertainment to those seeking relaxation after toil during these last days of preparation for the approaching examinations. But Lampy's readers will not be allowed wholly to forget the Reading Period; for the Jester's editorial wit once again plays around this academic innovation, and under an elaborate figure suggests the Sophoclean maxim that it is unwise to call any man happy until he has safely passed his final goal. Those who have followed Lampy...
Here, defended from the march of progress by the sturdy barrier of Judge, Junior, the good old customs will go on. What does it matter if the authors are strayed revellers, what if the number is diminishing of those who still care enough to illuminate their college, their class and their own family name with the last glints of a faded splendor...