Word: perfections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tradition of Radcliffe indifference has been broken at last!" expostulates the Radcliffe "News" in its today's issue, as Marjorie Ramsey '40 relates the results of a Sophomore Questionnaire. The poll, asking the question, "Would you give up college for marriage?" concluded that Radcliffe is "the perfect barrier against...
...days later the official results were announced. According to the Leftist Government: their forces had withdrawn from Teruel in perfect order and taken up strong positions nine miles back. According to General Franco: 16,000 Leftists had been taken prisoner, 9,000 buried. Striking an average, neutrals guessed that the Leftists had given a good account of themselves, had succeeded in fighting their way out with heavy losses...
Although Harvard is far from perfect, University officials will find few constructive ideas in former Professor Lake's recent tirade on American education. Indeed, the querulous tone of his criticism seems more indicative of personal resentment of Harvard's belated censure of his conduct than of any real interest in the educational process. Possibly, too, Mr. Lake was impressing Brown University with his qualifications for the chair of Comparative Literature...
...what may be taken as an answer to the two-year junior college proposal of President Hutchins of Chicago University, Conant announced that "no one educator can outline the perfect plan" for higher education because of sectional differences...
...crowd was not disappointed. With gaping mouths it watched jumper after jumper slant through the air-eight with leaps of over 200 ft.-but it was 130-lb. Birger Ruud who made the spectators gasp with his prodigious and perfect jump of 216 ft., a whizzing arc ending with the wood slapping evenly on the hard snow...