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Psychologically sound is the method used to win the confidence of the laborers: the college man shows his ability with pick and shovel, ax and saw, so that his fellow laborers may judge him by their own standards. In the evenings, conditions are reversed; the college man gives instruction appropriate to the development of his pupils...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FRONTIER COLLEGE | 12/22/1925 | See Source »

...Shovel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: No Sportsman | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

Another STEAL-that column of yours (in the Nov. 16 issue, p. 36) about an alleged quid pro quo in some fool-college paper. Looks as if you were editing TIME with a shovel. Only the last two lines of your story were worth printing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: No Sportsman | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...elude him, Mr. Bowman thought of a scheme. He built a flagpole over his grave and attached a flag and halyard. When he feels life departing, he will crawl into the coffin, raise the flag, and the people in the valley, knowing his signal, will climb the hill and shovel the earth over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 9, 1925 | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

...small body of men still eat at their clubs; Randall has not been opened since the War; Memorial Hall was finally closed this year because it was found impossible to coerce or cajole enough students into going there to make the place pay. The great mass of our undergraduates shovel down their food at quick-lunches or self-service cafeterias. This is no fault of the College. It represents a deep difference in social customs which the College is powerless to change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD '95 CONTRASTED WITH UNIVERSITY OF TODAY | 10/6/1925 | See Source »

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