Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show or two, tea dances. Citizens, studying, sleeping, eating these with a few variations make up the life of the college student. Aside from romances connected perhaps with football or basketball, these are never touched upon in magazine college life. The exceptions, and not the rule, give the periodical reader his impression of campus life...
...majority of Professor Babbitt's anathema is heaped upon "the new extensions of the principles of individual choice" and "the allowance of latitude in the individual." To the average reader, the very principle here implied would seem to be one of the strongest signs of health in Harvard at present. It is undoubtedly due to its presence and influence that a member of the faculty has been able so to criticize his university from within its very walls and command attention not wholly condemnatory. Cornell...
...addition to his connections with various colleges, Professor Tatlock has written and edited several works on English authors. Prominent among these are "The Development and Chronology of Chaucer's Works" written in 1907, "A Modern Reader's Chaucer" written in 1912 in conjunction with Percy MacKage, and "Representative English Plays" which he edited with P. G. Martin...
...only reader of this paper...
...relatives, when the word came that the College boys had, literally, raised the Devil. Prexy saddled his horse and hastened back to Cambridge to find that the report was true. The students were thoroughly frightened at something--whether a practical joke or a bit of black magic, the reader can best decide. Whatever it may have been, the President's remedy was masterly. Emptying his powder horn on the Hall floor, he solemnly exorcised the Evil One, and then, touching off the combustibles with a live coal, literally blew the Devil out of Harvard College...