Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every undergraduate and alumnus is asked to express his reason for enlarging the Stadium or keeping it as it is, and is allowed five minutes for the speech. Each man, according to the parliamentary system, upon entering the room chooses his side, the "ayes" placing themselves on the right hand of the chairman, L. T. Grimm '29, who will preside in the speaker's chair. Cheek, representing the affirmative, will open the debate by putting the motion before the house. As mover of the motion, he also has the privilege of speaking last. After he has concluded, representatives of either...
...think it wise. "We have drifted too far down the stream of Federal centralization," he believes. Washington has become the home of a bureaucratic system, "remote from the people with burdensome, perplexing laws, lacking popular sanction, red tape and the general incompetence of subordinates performing duties of responsibility." The reason for this is "because progressive men anxious to bring about social betterment have not had the patience to work things out through the slow process of State action, but have sought to attain results through the quicker and broader scope of the Federal Government." Whatever our troubles nowadays--"if crops...
...history of Tyrol is among the most disreputable in post-war history, It is an ungrounded belief that this little handful of people can harm Italy. When Tyrol was incorporated into Italy in 1919, the only reason given was the advantage of strategic frontier. Mussolini has taken this as an opportunity to show European countries that he means business. This pooh-poohing of the League is also shown by the Corfu incident...
...some reason not altogether clear, it has been found desirable to reintroduce prohibition into the New York public schools, as a subject for study. From the age of six pupils are to be instructed in the art, science or habit of prohibition. It seems that an education law of twenty-five years ago first made provision that prohibition should play a part in the life of every school child, to the obvious and praiseworthy end that he might become an intelligent and sober minded citizen...
...effeminate in American men. Europe, especially Germany and Italy, honored the musician above most artists, and reverence and love of this art produced whole races of instrumentalists and singers. But in America the perfect type of sissy was conceived as a long-haired esthete carrying a violin. For some reason good music was not native to this soil, and long years of labor by a few who appreciated it have been needed to rouse the nation from its apathy. America still is far from being musically cultivated, but it is no longer an ignoramus among nations in this...