Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...degree of compulsion is essential for another reason. The success which a college education is supposed to bring in the outside world is too nebulous and too remote a prospect to be a successful incitement to diligence in the pursuit of culture. All men are more or less lazy and some entirely so. In many cases it is to be feared that if all intra-College examinations were abolished, undergraduates free to work as they pleased, would work as little as they pleased. It is not fashionable among undergraduates to admit this fact, but it needs no psychological expert...
...indicted Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. of oil and gas lands in his home state. The alleged fraud is of the most ancient and bewhiskered type , in the land-grabbing business: no one person is allowed to get a permit to prospect over more than 2,560 acres, so crooked prospectors use dummies. Allegedly, some 9,000 acres were so secured by one Gordon Campbell,- client of the Butte, Mont., law firm of Wheeler & Baldwin, allegedly with Mr. Wheeler's senatorial...
...Student Friendship drive begins the final day of its campaign today with a bleak prospect of raising its quota of $4,000 by the closing hour this evening. At a late hour last night, although more than a third of the collectors' reports were not in the hands of the Committee, the total collection amounted approximately to only $982. The amount is discouragingly low but the committee expects to finish up its final day with the most intensive canvas which it has yet made...
...last-minute rush of applications for college rooms during the year 1925-26 is in prospect at the Bursar's office today if all these rooms are to be occupied. So far the number of applications received has been far below the number of rooms which will be vacated in June, the Bursar's office announced last night...
...prospect of at least a temporary suspension of Major Moore's passing game, which has occupied the spring football candidates at Soliders Field so far, was revealed yesterday afternoon when Coach Fisher decided that more room than is provided by the field equipped for the game will be needed to enable practice to be carried on most effectively. Although the head coach, on his second visit, was satisfied with the progress which the meir have been making, he has decided that, with the increasing size of the squad, a larger field will be necessary. As soon as the Freshman baseball...