Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The statement was made by President Lowell before the alumni on Graduates' Day that the success of a university should be measured by the way its undergraduates think. He pointed to the recent report of the Student Council Committee on Education as just such a standard, and one by which...
Although not conceived with cynical intent, the early dismissal from school is a reflection on the sense of proportion of the general public. A not unin fluential group has determined that America shall not slip down the lax road to ruin. The methods employed however, fit ill with the announced...
This is not merely teachers' talk about bad boys whose ways annoy them. The boys themselves are talking in the same tone about the same problem. When the Harvard Crimson says too much emphasis is given to college football, scoffers might retort, "There is a reason." But there was last...
Capitalist-pilgrim Hyde has dwelt for some years at Paris; is a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor; has received degrees honoris causa, from Princeton and the University of Rennes, France; wears a pointed mustache, a Van Dyck beard, often a floppy bow-tie.
Who Was She? Investigation disclosed that the woman thus spared was the Hon. Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the Irish peer, William Gibson, second Baron Ashbourne. Psychologists wearily pointed out that, like so many actual assassins, she was not only demented but known to be demented not only by her...