Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other beneficial effect, the widening of Plan B will at least prevent this unnecessary diverting of the interest of the really advanced freshmen into purely extra-curricular channels. However, taken in its broader light, one can read the beginning of the end of the fallacious system of entrance examinations and the dawning of a day when the general development of a student at his preparatory school will be accepted as a major factor in determining his fitness for admission. This day will undoubtedly come, and it can be safely forecast that the recent action of the Faculty Council has done...
This morning the Board will meet again in University Hall and reports of Visiting Committees will be read. The members will discuss the relation of secondary schools to the College and the University. The meeting will be followed by luncheon at the Faculty Club...
...book is not without faults: Robert Carne is always a vague, too romantic figure; his death comes too pat for the plot's development; there is extraordinary and unexpected vulgarity in the speech of Mr. Holly. But the whole is good. The book is a pleasure to read and to recommend...
...care of an ample bodyguard "Copey" arrived on time to find a waiting capacity audience, carefully adjusted the light, as is his custom. Read Kipling's "The Sergeaui and the Pharaoh," extracts from the Book of the Ruth, and the story of the Prodigal...
Then came the dawn. Our solitary man rubbed his eyes and stretched lazily. Where the devil was he? The note caught his eye, and he read: "Meet you at the New Yorker, ten o'clock." Gentic reader, Lord forbid the reoccurrence of such a hopeless, stupid physiognomy across the face of any man! Troubles never come singly. He had three classes that very morning; he was on pro; he had exactly one dollar in his pocket, and here he was way down South in New York City. Things looked awfully ominous. He set out for the New Yorker...