Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon the Weather-man and the Junior Ushers. The former, as the daily weather reports indicate, is of a highly temperamental nature which passes all human understanding. In his case reasoning will have to be abandoned in favor of a water-soaked, imploring faith. But the latter, closer within reach, may be reminded how much depends upon them. If, as seems probable at present, the Weather-man has turned on completely all the spigots on the floor above and gone to sleep leaving them running, the work of the Junior Ushers is tremendously increased. The job of fitting in thirty...
...joining the various roads to trunk lines which reach the New England gateways, however, the aim of the Transportation Act can be accomplished; the strong lines will be used as the financial backbones and the existing problem of the apportionment of through rates will disappear. All the earnings from one system will go into a main treasury from which the subordinate operating units will receive the necessary support. In this way the railroads of New England will be restored to a sound financial basis and the spectre of public ownership avoided...
Sophomore year is also open to criticism. The Sophomore Dean has more disciplinary work than the Freshman Dean. The lack of interest in studies, the malproportioned emphasis on outside activities, which are inherited from Freshman year, reach their full growth here. It is the year of awakening that the Freshman year ought to be; a year of a change of attitude; it is the time when the Freshman mistakes are atoned for--sometimes forcibly; and the time when the undergraduate first discovers that he is actually in College...
...fact, the stealing of books has been going on for so long that it has hardly any effect any longer --except for a slight pinch during examination periods. And so much ink has been spilled over the question that it seems useless to discuss it any further. When things reach such a stage, editorials, individual professors, and the members of the Library staff can do nothing. Even the recommendation of the Student Council that the names of all book-stealers be posted publicly has had no apparent effect...
Services will end promptly at 9 o'clock in order to allow students to reach their classes at that hour...