Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other reason than sheer physical limitations, the rush of American youth to the colleges that has been going on since the war could not keep up indefinitely. Reports of the numbers of new students entering universities for the past year reveal the fact that the tide has finally been checked. For the first time since the movement began, the rate of increase in enrollments is less than for the preceding year...
...inability of the institutions to expand as fast as the numbers of those desiring to enter them is the most obvious reason for this first abating of the movement that has been the despair of educational leaders for the last decade. Yet this may not be the whole story. If the pressure remained the same, there are still many colleges in the country that could do with a greater abundance of students, and at Harvard each Freshman class outnumbers its predecessor in spite of the increasing rigor of entrance requirements...
...major sport, too, is still untouched by this new class spirit. Track continues to attract its ten thousands, perhaps to a great extent by means of the ubiquitous intramural handicap meets. With a fertile field of enthusiasts already engaged in this sport, there is no reason why the coming spring should not carry the individualism of the handicap meet and medal through to its logical conclusion of team development. The throng of not-quite-first-stringers that are carried along semi-officially through the season is particularly large in this sport, which alone among the five major athletic activities offers...
...paid $7 a pound for Dick-$8,050 all told. The highest previous price was $3.60 a pound, two years ago. Mr. Penney intended to ship Dick to Manhattan, exhibit him to the urbanites, then eat him for Christmas dinner. But gourmanderie was not Mr. Penney's prime reason for buying Dick, nor advertising. He has stores in small towns throughout the country and he wished to encourage boy & girl stockbreeders, his customers...
Friends of the Del Rios were less amused. The emotion, they knew, was real. They recalled how Del Rio, owner of 20 ranches in Mexico, learned to write scenarios so as to have a professional reason for being with his wife in Hollywood, how he was known there as "Mr. Dolores Del Rio," and how, after a period of faithfulness regarded as unconventional by their colleagues, the Del Rios began to live apart, each denying estrangement. "Our careers have forced us apart...