Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifth That such representatives shall have never received pecuniary assistance toward their support and maintenance as athletes during any portion of their university career or any period prior there...
...further opportunity to call forth a nonexistent student conscience is to those whose careers with which it is indissolubly connected an eminently practical problem, and one which can be solved only by the sincerest cooperation. That cooperation begins in the preparations for the respite--even before the period of its actual prevalence...
Brewers, distillers, winemakers, millions of moderate and immoderate U. S. drinkers might, 34 years ago last week, have grinned pityingly or sneered had they seen a newspaper item obscurely printed in the press of the period. Most of them probably did not see the item, for the newspapers of 1893 gave it no large headlines, no prominent position. It related that 14 ministers, college professors and tradesmen of Oberlin, Ohio, assembled in the library of Oberlin College, had founded a society to be known as the Anti-Saloon League...
That snapping-jawed, tight-lipped fighter, that paladin in sailor's pants, Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, for eight years U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey, put a period last week to the most imposing paragraph of hard, successful work which any American has done in the Near East since the World...
Professor Gay spoke of President Eliot's belief from the very outset in the speedy success of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Eliot was confident that by the end of the first five-year period, avowedly experimental, for which a modest financial provision had been made, the new School would have so demonstrated its usefulness that its support would be ensured. The newly appointed dean insisted that it would take at least fifteen years to come to anything like maturity, measured by both qualitative and quantitative tests. That cautious prediction has been abundantly fulfilled...