Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Oregon. Two years ago Dr. Frederick Maurice Hunter was brought from Denver as Oregon's Chancellor of Higher Education to quiet a raging political dogfight. But the University still feels itself the underdog. It lacks a full-fledged science department and other requisites of a self-respecting university...
...Rijn might be considered excessively vain, for he painted 62 pictures of his own face.* Emanuele, Count Castelbarco Albani, Italian painter whose first one-man show in the U. S. opened last week in Manhattan's Marie Sterner Galleries, might be considered inordinately modest, for the only self-portrait in Count Castelbarco's exhibit portrays no part of the Count's body...
Claimed to have been composed in his sleep, a little known self-epitaph of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is now on exhibit at Widener Library in a display of manuscripts and marginal notes of this author...
...other things besides the Princeton game, he decides to set up a pig farm there. He changes to a kennel, however, when he stumbles upon Angus MacQuade, the man who in Scotland helped him buy Mr. Bones, his agreeable companion. He is pursued by his self-appointed fiancee, who has completely abandoned the feminine pretense. She in turn is pursued by a Yale man, along the lines of the adage, "Little bugs have lesser bugs--", but he is neatly disposed of in the end by being married to Angus's daughter, a Smith majorer in poultry farming...
Earlier in the afternoon, Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, described the Act as "Swiss-cheese neutrality" in a broadcast to the nation over the Columbia Broadcasting System. Remarking that the American people cannot be put in "hermetically-sealed cans" he declared that it is "self-interest to prepare in advance to prevent the storm...