Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treated as secondary in importance, if colleges gave up the ambition to spatter their catalogues of faculties with doctor's titles, the present commercializing of the degree would stop. Unless some method of prevention is adopted, and adopted soon, by the American universities of high standing, the abuse will prove hydra-headed with the founding of each new institution, and like the hydra will be almost impossible to kill...
Much heralded, and burdened with a host of favorable criticisms, "The Emperor Jones" comes to the Selwyn under auspices that would prove fatal to any but the most robust product. Over praise is the only complaint from which it suffers. When one goes to the theatre expecting to see "America's greatest drama," and to come away with hair on end, feeling like the proverbial jelly, it is just a little disappointing to receive only a moderate thrill, and to have the guilty suspicion either that your ideas of the greatest drama are all wrong, or that someone has exaggerated...
...closing speaker, S. A. Rosenblatt '22, after summing up the arguments for his side, pointed out the dangers of recognition. It would, he said, prove to be a second Mexico, only on a far larger scale. Our present policy has the double advantage of avoiding all such danger, and of hastening a change in the Russian government...
...School is nation-wide now largely because of its national character. The number of colleges represented in the student body is 180 as opposed to 155 three years ago and 83 twenty years ago. To limit the enrollment would result in the exclusion of some students who would prove able lawyers and valuable to the school as alumni. Any restriction on numbers could not help narrowing the school's influence by limiting the field from which it draws, thereby detracting very much from its national character. The only reasonable solution would seem to be in further building, either...
...verily it appears that our sword of Damocles has only been rehung almost out of sight above us, less oppressive but more terrible; for according to Dr. Aston there is always the possibility that if the experiment were performed at some time in the future the energy liberated might prove completely uncontrollable. Its intense violence might detonate all neighboring substance and the result of this most successful experiment be published to the rest of the universe in the form of a new star of extraordinary brilliancy...