Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Proportional Representation," Professor Johnson explained, "is applicaple in the government of any body of individuals, from social, commercial and labor organizations to college classes and to cities, states, and nations. It has long been advocated by sincere well-wishers of popular representative government, notably John Stuart Mill, who was fully aware to its value 60 or 70 years ago. It found acceptance first in other English speaking countries, notably Australia. What has stood most seriously in its path in this country has been the fear that, in spite of the actual simplicity of the voting, it would look too complicated...
...Monday afternoon, the first events of the winter handicap track meet for all members of the University will be held. Extending over a three-day period, this all-University contest will take the place of the Winter Carnival which has heretofore proven very popular...
...popular cry of "over-education" which always arises after such cases as these is totally mistaken. On the contrary it is under-education. And if undergraduates at American colleges are committing suicide because of under-education, it would seem that there was something a trifle wrong with American colleges. Perhaps the truth lies in the fact, as has been suggested in these columns before, that the modern university emphasizes analysis at the expense of synthesis, that we acquire information but no way of life, that in the maze of contradictory facts and theories which we encounter at this time...
...took a Ford out one morning and drove to an exam in it," the agent in one of the most popular drive it yourself establishments told a Crimson reporter. "I saw nothing of him until about dinner time. He came in and wanted to rent a car to go to Boston. After looking him over carefully I asked him if he had not taken a car out that morning. Red in the face he boat a hasty retreat in the direction of Memorial Hall, blaspheming exams in general...
Augustus Barratt, director of the popular musical comedy hit "Dearest Enemy" which starred Helen Ford and Charles Purooll last year, has been engaged to coach the manual spring musical comedy of the Hasty Pudding Club, it was announced last night by E. B. Jackson, '28 manager of the forthcoming production...