Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale's James Rowland Angell: As I meet American college graduates, nothing is more depressing than to remark the astonishing number who give absolutely no suggestion of intelligent acquaintance with anything whatever outside the range of business and sport. Indeed, did they not assure you that they were sons of Dear Old Siwash, you would never of your own initiative have made that inference...
...quandary as to the truth of such a strong statement, the CRIMSON reporter called upon the superior linguistic and elocutionary knowledge of Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, for an opinion as to the truth or falsity of the remark. Professor Packard was 10th to express himself on such an important point at short notice, and quoted Alexander Woolcott as an exponent of the idea of talking things over with one's self, for which purpose he asked a half hour's grace. This was cheerfully accorded...
...merry undergraduates are enthuslastic about those changes in exams, probation, and attendance that the College has made. Possibly they are a bit too Bolshevistic. Anyway, the following remark was made by an apparently abused oarsman the other day: "Say, I'm going to sue the College before they have nothing but a few optional lectures to offer a guy. These days a fellow has got to get his money's worth...
Judge Sullivan, angered by some inflection in the words, said hotly: "That's an insulting remark. Withdraw...
...withdraw the remark," Lapin said evenly...