Word: prosperities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advanced by a chemist from Connecticut. Yale has lost its athletic supremacy, so this scientific man declares, because the soil of the State has become exhausted, and college men have for that reason become a race of less vitality. If the tribe of weaklings at New Haven is to prosper, farmers must grow alfalfa to get phosphate of lime into the milk. Lime and legumes, says the expert, will go far toward redeeming Yale's athletic prowess. Thus is the intricacy of intercollegiate sport reduced to simple terms of molecules and fertilizers...
...sweetened, the essence of the outside reading carefully extracted and flavored, and the whole fed to the faltering student in- a form most readily assimilated by his starved intellect. Repudiated by some, instructors, ignored by the faculty at large, these establishments conduct a thriving business,-and will continue to prosper just as long as they satisfy the need of the undergraduate...
...students will deny that the system of vacations here is absolutely undesirable. The this may be but an insignificant circumstance in the general antagonism towards Harvard, assemble enough insignificant objections to any institution and it is bound to suffer thereby. PROSPER D. WIRT UNC. March...
...reason dictate their action. All nations, although without authority to interfere, hope that Greece will not make the mistake of recalling a man who was a pro-Hohenzollern during the war. It would undo much of the work accomplished by Venizelos--and no one did more to prosper Hellenic aspirations. It would complicate exceedingly the near-Eastern problem in which all Europe is interested. It would repudiate Greece as one of the Allies. It is to be hoped that the Greeks will take the note from Great Britain, France and Italy in the right spirit...