Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eked out his discourse with selections from the Covenant of the League of Nations,-there being nothing else at hand sufficiently long to be helpful,-but these are effete days. Another contender, the pious Senator Brookhart, intends to read the Bible from cover to cover. It is an intriguing prospect to imagine the Gentleman from lowa slowly enunciating the Song of Solomon, while harassed stenographers record each word for the Congressional Record. Other Senators display more originality. Heflin, always genial and diverting, has chosen to lecture on "Egyptology". This subject, while peculiarly apropos in the Senate, is perhaps not quite...
This is pessimism, in truth, for a student at a co-educational institution. Surely his appeal ought to be answered. The prospect of such a course appears profitable. Laboratory work in psychology is as common as in chemistry; strange things are said to happen behind closed doors on the top floor of Emerson Hall; and at a nearby women's college "psych" is such a fad that several hundred students are learning two unfamiliar foreign languages, merely for the purpose of computing a certain mental factor. But at Chicago, and in the field of love psychology, the possibilities are infinite...
...whether Horace Greeley's West, Palm Beach as pictured in the rotogravure supplements, or a hill farm in Vermont; the somewhere is always somewhere else, a place to go to with no responsibilities and the opportunity to move whenever the prospect grows tiresome. This state of mind is often conveniently labelled "sophomoric", but it is too elastic to be classified under one head. It may stretch over a man's entire life or end with his senior year at high school. While it lasts the philosophy of the "milieniumite", the pleasant dream of a little "kingdom round the corner" holds...
...formidable prospect, and only one defense can be suggested. The spell of the tropics must be played up to its full value. Ukuleles and guitars must be brought out in force to greet the conquering heroine; the weatherman must be prevailed upon to remind her of torrid suns, and perhaps that subtle nostalgia that worked on Ganguin. Stevenson, and the other South Seamen will call her back to Papua for peaceful sovereignty where she has already conquered...
...Dartmouth" has pointed the way. This attractive, irreproachable, Average Dartmouth Man, statistical as he is holds much interest and conjures up the prospect of a Composite Son of Harvard. Does he spend four hours of his day outside of classes, in study? Can he claim a fifty-five hour working week, lumping together studies, classes, and everything else that can be brought under the head of work...