Word: presentably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women do not earn as high salaries as men. Moreover, they look forward to marrying and are reluctant to load a debt on a young husband. A debt makes an unattractive sort of dowry. . . ." Dean Gildersleeve thus touched upon one phase of the scholarship and tuition loan problem which, present at all colleges, is being attacked from a new angle by a big new institution called the Lincoln Scholarship Fund. This Fund started functioning last week in Manhattan. Its campaign: to raise $1,120,000 to lend as tuition fees to "anyone, regardless of age, race, color or creed...
...School Association, whose President is William Thomas of San Francisco. Canadian, Federal, and State Judges, many members of the American Bar and a number of foreign lawyers and scholars will attend. George W. Wickersham, Chairman of the President's National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, will be present...
...sport are to be accepted, collegiate circles will not be the last to foresee the possibility of a future invasion of professionalism upon fields that have thus far been represented mainly by the amateur. It was not such a far cry to the professional conquest of hockey, while the present invasion of football, although not yet a conquest by any means, is an established fact. Professionalism steps in where angels fear to tread as is evidenced by recent attempts to commercialize even the most commonplace dance marathon, let alone the attempted subsidization of better accepted sports such as tennis...
Under such circumstances the college can do little at present but assume an attitude of watchful waiting, and a strict policy that will insure that at least those principles that have thus far placed the freshness and energy of collegiate sport in the good favor of the sporting public may be preserved...
...experiment may or may not prove to be successful in its present untried form; it at least deserves unqualified commendation...