Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that even the top rank of men's universities are above criticism. Unfortunately for Miss Warfield, however, she does not prove her case. She says with the satiric generalization which has become popular in the last decade, that the typical "college woman." If she hered; and, largely as a result of this veneer, thin but adequate, of culture; learns a few catch phrases to repeat whenever a subject is mentioned about which educated persons are supposed to be informed; and, largely as a result of this veneer comes out into the world with a certain amount of poiso. The wise...
...that interest in after life are those who in college were intellectual because they had no opportunity to be anything else. In short, she draws a picture of cultural devotion around the woodland lake. That there are some students in women's colleges whose interest in learning, whether the result of a scarcity of dates or not, affords them great pleasure and a deeper outlook on life than Miss Warfield seems to have acquired, she does not for a moment consider. That even those whose undergraduate days were little more than a succession of dances and triumphs in feminine politics...
This nomination squabble was as nothing, however, to the election squabble, which Mrs. Imhof took to the State Supreme Court last week. Mrs. Gallagher having been nominated four votes to one, her name alone was placed on the ballot by the committee. Yet when the club members voted, the result was: Imhof 127, Gallagher 127. A tie! One ballot was so poorly written that none could be sure whom it favored but it looked like an Imhof. What...
...Fortunately, Italians are now ridding their minds of the residue left by the memory of past foreign dominations, of the Habsburgs, of the Bourbons, of the Grand Dukes, as a result of which that of the police was looked upon as an odious and abominable profession which was to be avoided at all cost...
Moderator Thompson's great problem last year was to dampen the shoutings of Presbyterians who interpreted their creed differently and sincerely. Presbyterian legalists learned a new patience last year for Presbyterian humanists; humanists tolerated the behavior of legalists. As a result Moderator Speer can give his energies to Church administration instead of to pacification...