Word: proof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose work will interest him more than the others. Now he is experiencing his first real thrill in the effort to procure everything published by this particular author. Here also begins the storing up of those little bibliographical details which lend zest to the hunt. The fancy of the proof-reader, the error of the typesetter, the imagination of the binder,--all these and many other factors tend to make identification of first issues so certain and so easy--after one knows the variations...
...small circulation of college literary magazines is sufficient proof that it is to outside periodicals that students turn when inclined to while away time over a short story or a discussion of a cosmopolitan problem. On the other hand it is possible that a large student public could be brought to patronize a magazine which should undertake exclusively to mirror their own life and activities. College newspapers perform this function in an abbreviated form; it would be the task of the proposed college "lit" to select topics of controversial or novel interest and develop them in a literary manner...
...formulate ideas without having the question of earning a living predominating his ideas. On the other hand, the objection that the college is merely a catalogue of theories, is disproved by this Princeton plan, for it proposes an appeal to actual conditions as the final proof of the validity of its conclusions...
...proof is constantly turning up that the industry one of the half dozen largest in the country is still far from a condition of stabilization...
...Ample proof of the omniscience proceeding from four years in New Haven is to be found in the confidence with which the Seniors attack such problems as "which living man do you admire most?" But here there develops a weakness in the works, for though the majority comes out stoutly for Lindy or the great American home, four Seniors seem still hopelessly introverted at the end of a college course spent solely with studying their fellow...