Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hersey's well known faculty for helpful criticism, added to the obligation of writing a weekly composition in verse, should prove valuable not only for the earnest poet and the vague dilettante but for anyone who wishes to acquire an appreciation of good poetry through the simple means of personal trial and failure. Genius, by the way, has never been required for a C in this course, as the writer of this bit of confidence will readily testily...
...PROHIBITION MANIA-Clarence Darrow & Victor S. Yarros-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Using the much-heralded dry arguments of Professor Irving Fisher of Yale (advanced in Prohibition at its Worst) as a tackling dummy, Authors Yarros (Chicago journalist) & Darrow (famed Chicago lawyer) endeavor to prove that the 18th amendment should be considered an outmoded though undeniably humorous fantasy. Practically all of Professor Fisher's conclusions, 38 of his charts connecting the dry law with the decrease in drunkenness and juvenile delinquency, the disappearance of disorderly houses, the reduction of deaths due to alcoholism, are demolished with an angry despatch. The book...
...steed, and (like Stephen Leacock's famed knight) rides off in all directions. According to Upton, the successful writers of today write either consciously or unconsciously for the benefit of nasty Wall Street. Most of Money Writes! is devoted to a mildly interesting, not very convincing attempt to prove this theory. One by one Joseph Herges-heimer, Gertrude Atherton, et al., are pointed at with the finger of scorn and it is all pretty terrible-if true. Upton Sinclair has long enjoyed the privilege of being far better known than any of his books...
Llewellyn Truman Spencer, assistant professor of psychology at Yale, had sufficient statistics last week apparently to prove that high school graduates were better in intelligence and in studies than were graduates of private preparatory schools. A high school graduate himself and very methodical, he studied the records of Yale undergraduates and learned that in intelligence the high school graduates averaged 71.25, the preparatory school graduates 69.88. In college grades the high school man averaged 73.94, the preparatory school...
...particular name of its own. In some places, the scheme is known as "sitting in on a course," at Harvard it is known as "vagabonding," and at other institutions the name varies. Needless to say, the practice has many advantages. As haphazard as the plan may prove to be, there is always and often the chance that a so-called vagabond lecture may prove to be stimulating and may awaken a real interest in the subject concerned. Such an interest would be easily satisfied by making the vagabonding in that course a regular affair. Furthermore there is always the opportunity...