Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After prolonged round table discussion, the general question was reduced to three specific problems: first, the adequate presentation of the significance of social work; second, the difficulty of sustaining individual interest throughout the four years of college; and third, ways and means for increasing the cooperation between the social service committee and the settlement houses...
...There are others or whom this glimpse of different fields is an impulse to further investigation. Yet divisionals themselves require that the earnest student select courses not in other fields but courses which will be of benefit to him in his chosen field. To fill in the gaps and round out the college training, an able corps of tutors may not only guide the students in their fields of concentration, but may also encourage them to delve more deeply into foreign fields of knowledge...
...make no provision for any personal eccentricities. They weed out those who are not adjusted to their scale by the very strictness of their rulings. The average student does not realize that there are many men in college who suffer from morbidness and emotionalism of all sorts. They are round pegs in square holes, and the college lifts no finger to aid them...
...through it of late have gone a motley crew-peasants from the Caucasus, coatless students from Kiev, land-robbed landowners from the Volga Valley. They have turned sharply round the gate, up a stone staircase by the wall, into a low-vaulted room half-lost in the acres of masonry. There they have kissed the hands of a scarred and battered old priest, Basil Ivanovitch Baliavin, known to the world as the Most Reverend Dr. Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow, Patriarch of All Russia...
...called "The National Stock, Cotton & Grain Exchange." So he went into the tourist business under the name "Cooks Tour, Inc.," advertised a 34-day tour to Europe on the S. S. Berengaria for $325.* The American manager of Thomas Cook & Son, which has piloted two generations of tourists round the globe, became justly indignant. He obtained a temporary injunction restraining Cooper from doing business under the globe-girdling name. It also developed that Mr. Cooper had become President of an "American Bankers' Corporation," was issuing travelers "A. B. C." checks in imitation of the "A. B. A." checks long...