Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most vital and worthwhile element in American higher education. To him the growth of the Junior College will cause the college to drop its first two years, add two more at the upper end and gradually but inevitably transform itself into a professional school. He sees this process already going on at Johns Hopkins and at Stanford. He is alarmed for the passing from American life of what he aptly calls "our scholarly amateur". Unless the Junior College idea is checked the average college graduate in the future will "go directly from school to business, and the glorious peculiarity...
...will prophesy that by the year 1935 the Negro death rate will equal the birth rate and from then on the decrease toward extinction will be absolute. And this process will be greatly hastened by the Negro's northward migrations, by industrial competition and by being scattered all over the country...
Tyrus Raymond Cobb, ancient bellicose baseball player, crouched near the home plate at St. Petersburg, Fla., awaiting his turn at bat. Mr. Cobb is not, never has been one to do things quietly. So, while waiting, he gave advice to able Eddie Collins, ancient teammate, then in the process of batting; appraised the opposing pitcher's ability in acid terms; discoursed on this and that subject in a manner familiar to American League players...
Very different, though of a kindred ruminative type, are two books by U. S. commentators upon Europe. They quote no ballads, songs or snatches; but one, a young Columbia University Assistant Professor "on the make" has turned out a very crisp and searing exposé5 of the hypocritical process by which the white man shoulders a "burden" of profitable produce which he has made the colonial native extract from soil rightly his. The other U. S. ruminator cited is the Editor of Foreign Affairs.6 He starts with such elementals as that "Balkans" was originally a Turkish word meaning simply...
...entries, it was announced, will be given a physical examination before their first bouts. The examination will be given when the process of weighing in the pugilist takes place at Hemenway at 4 o'clock today...