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Word: rather (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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NORMAN, Okla.--Dissatisfaction with the status of football at Oklahoma Aggies college broke out anew here as Joe Scott, president of the state board of agriculture, proposed that 12 prize bulls be bought rather than replace Ted Cox, who resigned as head football coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OKLAHOMA AGGIES TO HAVE 12 BULLS, NO GRID COACH? | 12/9/1938 | See Source »

...purpose of a House dinner is not to stimulate artificially that mystical thing, "House spirit," but rather to provide a weekly occasion when tutors, their associates, and several favored students can join for a few hours of dinner and common room talk. To the six or seven undergraduates invited it gives the opportunity of becoming better acquainted with their superiors, of participating in stimulating discussion of an academic sort. Conceived as such, the dinner is another fine tool for the machine of liberal education. Therefore the present obstacle to its application and extension should be removed by eliminating the restriction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EAT, DRINK, AND BE CIVILIZED | 12/8/1938 | See Source »

...odds against expulsion are approximately 16-1, seemingly rather safe, but the 129 men whose connections were severed at Finals last year were deceived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPULSION ODDS ONLY 16 TO 1 IN THE COLLEGE | 12/8/1938 | See Source »

...author of the communication in yesterday's Crimson expressed the opinion that the plan of the Harvard Committee for Refugees was "laudable" but "short-sighted and unintelligent." His suggestion was that the fund should be used for the daily needs of a great number of refugees, rather than for the education of 20 selected students, for whom "higher education is a luxury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/8/1938 | See Source »

With these thoughts in mind, I suggest that the Committee cited should alter the aims of its subscription campaign, and endeavor to alleviate the condition of a great many oppressed beings in Germany, rather than give means of a higher education to several...

Author: By Julian Levine, | Title: THE MAIL | 12/7/1938 | See Source »

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