Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then there is the evil suggestion that as "mid-years are approaching it will be far from undiplomatic for the subtle student to commence accosting his section men with the title professor." What could be more offensive that this, suggesting, as it does, that a sop to the pride of these underlings will influence the mark of the student? The obvious course open to the faculty is to adopt the now popular method of severing relations with the offending sheet...
...proud of the 1924 tax law-and so is Mr. Gregg, no doubt. In 1925 he was made Solicitor in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Now he is chief counsel for the Government in the Detroit suit, where Secretary Mellon and Senator Couzens are trying to effect a pride's purge over a few million dollars...
...was?and his voice shook with pride when he said it? a Corsican. His grandfather, his own father's father, had been a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte! His surname, once Buonfiglio? "good son" in feud-loving Corsica ?had become gallicized into Bonfils. He had attended West Point but left hurriedly. Corsicans, cousins of Napoleon, resent discipline. He had come West, flash and dapper, intent on a killing; and now he was already a legend. He was the Fred G. Bonfils who had lately cleaned out of Kansas City with $800,000 and no holes in his skin. That...
...Comstock of Minnesota, has just regained the national coffee-drinking championship downing 85 cupfulls in seven hours and a quarter. The pride of his state, he is not the first to find the alimentary canal a passage to fame. The ability to swallow the unusual has always commanded the admiration of mankind. Probably the interest in this kind of performance arises form the complete universality of its equipment. All of us dabble in the art to some extent, and even a man who has only choked on a fishbone can appreciate the greatness of one who has swallowed a sword...
...scholarship. This scholarship was established in 1924 in honor of Herbert Parker '78 and amounts to about $250. The two Class of 1913 scholarships go to Herman Thomas Anstern of New York City, and Jule Elias Stocker of Detroit, Michigan. The Faculty scholarship was awarded to Fredierick William Roy Pride of Portsmouth, Ohio...