Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that forest creatures when alarmed "freeze" where they are, and move no muscle till danger is past. Editor Wickizer, lacking protective coloring, hastily promised not to print "anything of a sarcastic or critical nature that would not be for the best interest of the University and the Associated Students", adding, "henceforth we pledge ourselves to be the submissive voice of every student leader and ready to carry out the wishes of every faculty member...
Soon President and Potentate strode from the station to review the Red troops. First the infantry and then the cavalry wheeled past. Meanwhile Her Majesty chatted with the Soviet's most famed female diplomat, Mme. Alexandra M. Kollontai, who had come from her post as Ministress to Norway especially to attend Queen Thuraya. Their conversation was presumably "advanced," for Mme. Kollontai is an avowed, die-hard exponent of free love, while Her Majesty, a tireless educator, is easily the most emancipated woman in backward Afghanistan. Both these sagacious ladies paid small heed to President Kalinin, whom ignorant peasants affectionately...
Penn was on the inside lane, Yale on the outside, and Columbia in the middle. On the course at the Schuylkill at Philadelphia, with its staggered start and its finish laid at an angle past a bend, the outside lane was much the hardest. But the course did not bother the Yale crew. It was in front when the three boats settled down after the racing start and it stayed in front, fighting off Columbia's sprints, to win by three quarters of a length. Penn was three lengths behind Columbia...
...past few days a few of us have been giving serious thought to the casting of our first vote at a presidential election next fall. And at the same time, we became convinced that the situation at it is, is unsatisfactory, not only for the country at large, but for the college man in particular...
...quite obvious that they do not stand for a single definite idea. They are both actuated by a laudable desire to be president. We submit that college men as citizens have a right to demand of political parties and their leaders more than they have given there in the past. When Democrats are out, they want to get in; when Republicans are in, they fight to stay there...