Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That students will seek learning for its own sake will not be due to the millenium, but to natural causes developing more and more rapidly. When these causes produce their effects the administrative machinery now existing in colleges will become completely incapable of dealing with students as they are now dealt with. To take care of the future undergraduates as they are now being cared for would require a legion of deans and a stadium for records. True now, it will be equally true then, that the cheapest and most economical way of caring for an individual...
...suppression of vice and immorality" was passed in New Jersey providing that no "wordly business or employment, nor any interludes, plays for gain, dancing, singing, fiddling or other music for the sake of merriment" should be carried on upon the Sabbath day. In 1923, this statute still remains on the books: zealous but simple-minded ladies and gentlemen invoke it to suppress Sunday movies and theatres, while paleoxed legislators seek daily to add more awe of the vintage of 1798 to the already complete collection...
...insurance for the class of 1924, said yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter, "Endowment insurance has worked well wherever it has been tried. In this case I especially approve of the plan to make the policies directly in favor of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, for the sake of the otherwise harassed class treasurer. This plan has the sanction of President Lowell...
...affair culminating in a slap. Katherine Cornell plays the heroine under the Jane Austen name of Shirley Pride. But Shirley is not at all a Jane Austen character. Her manly foster brother, played by Tom Nesbitt, has played fast and loose with some one else's bonds for the sake of a little spitfire wench. Shirley, in love with foster brother, purchases the evidence of his guilt from a salacious clerk at the price of her precious jewel of virtue...
From the scientific point of view the book is of doubtful value--a mere rebellion, it seems, for rebellion's sake...