Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days before practice begins the competition for the second assistant manager ship will be open to all members of the Freshman class. No previous experience is necessary as the work during the spring practice will be comparatively light. If the present plans prove to be successful it is probable that the candidates will not have to report every day. The work will be discontinued after the spring vacation and will not be resumed until the fall practice begins...
...alternative is censorship of some sort; which naturally falls into two classes--political and voluntary. Political censorship is out of the question entirely; the fate of Rabelais at the hands of the Government is sufficient to prove this point. Or, if more argument be needed, we can only suggest that money, of which the theatre managers have an abundance, is still a persuasive force. Voluntary censorship by the public is almost equally dangerous and certainly more paradoxical. To make the public its own censor is shown to be no remedy by the very existence of the so-called need...
...things as they are and to write of things as they are. The world has need, and always will have need, of men with those qualifications. The competitors who lose need not feel that they have labored in vain. They, too, will have received instruction that may some day prove valuable. Merely to have been in such a contest is worth while if for no other reason than that it is good for every man to be tested and put on his mettle
...smell and the motorman's glove taste of the morning after. Mr. Fitzgerald, to repeat, may have no such intention but he has succeeded in demonstrating pretty effectively that the pursuit of pleasure as the end of life may be at the beginning pretty delightful but is likely to prove less so as the highballs succeed one another...
...feature of the Yale rowing program this year is the unprecedented scale on which full crew work was carried out last October. By the middle of the month 30 eights were working out regularly on the Housatonic. Over 250 men were thus given an opportunity to prove their worth on the river, and the Fall Regatta which closed the season on November 10 provided as opportunity for Coach Corderry to compare the respective merits of the veteran oarsmen as well as uncovering a quantity of good material among the upper class and Freshman candidates...