Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition is not easy, but the candidate looking back over his career finds it worth while. He sees that it wasn't so bad after all and that the search for his stories brought him not regrets but pleasure. To an outsider the work seems excessive, but the candidate finds time for his studies. He will give up the latest movie, Sinclair Lewis' new book, the midnight show at the Old Howard, and the rest of the necessities for a normal, life, because he enjoys the sacrifice...
...plan such as this is open to just condemnation by those idealistic individuals who denounce any system of honors, or even of grading, on the grounds that it obscures the true objects of education in a search for glory. General honors are obviously sought by those priggish souls who value a "cum" solely for vanity's sake, rather than for any real initiative and genuine scholarship which such recognition ought certainly to represent. Moreover, the similar terminology of the degree "cum laude" in General Studies, and of that in Special Studies does not offer an adequate or equitable initiative requisite...
...Haven Saturday afternoon in charge of Handsome Dan II, and later that evening presented the dog to Yale authorities. Last night a bulletin from New Haven said that Apted had stated that at the request of Malcolm Farmer, Director of Yale athletics, Harvard officials had put the search in his hands...
...labor recognizes this is a crucial struggle and is anxious to gain some advantage. It is afraid to retreat or to appear to be yielding. Hence the search in the last 48 hours for the usual alibi to save everybody's face. Every plan thus far has looked toward some supervision of elections to determine who the chosen spokesmen of the workers really are. Labor gains by every such device because Government supervision of elections thus far has merely meant postponing local elections till the labor organizers are sure of a majority...
...search for Handsome Dan has kept New England buzzing for almost a week and has been featured by numerous amusing incidents. Within the environs of Cambridge, Charles Apted and his cohorts have carried on a courageous but fruitless search which has carried them into the furthest reaches of the University, and sent them scurrying in all directions at the slightest rumor. It was expected that the Colonel would neglect his dog hunt on Tuesday in favor of the Eliot Centenary Exercises, but when the crowd gathered in the court of Eliot House for the unveiling of the new bust...