Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although no obstacles would be placed in the path of able men, applicants of limited ability and mediocre promise would be denied entrance. The unpromising student would be penalized to make room for the promising one. After all, it is not ridiculous to admit large numbers of undistinguished applicants, thus wasting employment opportunities and financial aids which might be used to better purpose in assisting equally needy students of more certain intellectual capacity...
...automobile accident at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon near Woodbridge, New Jersey, while driving with his wife. Ex-president Hibben died en route to the Rahway General Hospital, where Mrs. Hibben is in a serious condition. The car which was being driven by Hibben, swerved into the path of westbound traffic, colliding with a truck of the Middlesex Beverage Company driven by Peter Seilia. Seilia is being held for manslaughter...
...editors in other cities are as remarkable if not so powerful as Marion Devereux: Boston had until last winter a tsar to match Tsarina Devereux. He was Charles Elmer ("Charlie") Alexander, past 60, of the Transcript, to whose office generations of Sewing Circle and Vincent Club girls beat a path, bearing portraits
Perfect, to the commas, one would say. But even a lily can be gilded. Calmly the CRIMSON concludes its comment, "The tutoring bureaus should stop helping the undergraduates down the path of intellectual disintegration; but the experience of Harvard and others has shown that they will not stop, and cannot be stopped...
...impracticalities. The students should do their work completely and critically; but many of them will never do so while they are assigned unwieldy tomos, which waste their time, and many of them will never do so in any case. The tutoring bureaus should stop helping the undergraduate down the path of intellectual disintegration; but the experience of Harvard and others has shown that they will not stop, and cannot be stopped...