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Word: similars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Quasimade peered down from the towers of Notre Dame he was surrounded by variations of the seven devils, grotesquely carved in the recesses of the cathedral. Today modern Quasimade who have the ambition to crewl around the less obvious parts of the Princeton Graduate College have similar company, brought down to modernity and constructed with an eye for present collegiate tendencies. There is a gargoyle representing an amorous duet in a roadster, there is another which shows a radio fan in the midst of his revelry. And so tomorrow, or whenever roadsters and radios are superseded by other curiosities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GARGOYLES--IN MODERN DRESS | 5/12/1927 | See Source »

...occasion for wonder if not for alarm. It is doubtful if among all the men who have crossed their Atlantic, one has offered, just for the fun of it, to shovel coal; what is more, it is doubtful if one ever will, unless driven to it by the similar activities of the girls on board. It is a new, and unpleasant possibility. Is stoking in the hold to the other diversions of a sea-journey? Echo answers, not if it can possibly be avoided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OIL-BURNERS ARE BEST | 5/12/1927 | See Source »

...colleges. The agreement announced last night whereby the choice of officials for the annual Harvard Yale football game will be entrusted to a neutral party is therefore, not only commendable in itself, but equally praiseworthy as an example which might quite logically be followed by all Eastern colleges. A similar arrangement has been instituted with success in the "Big Ten" Association, and whereas the present system here has not resulted in a recognized evil, the lot of a big game referee, dependent on the approval of the rival coaches for his position, could not have been a very happy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW THIRD PARTY | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

...certain fields of Concentration during the Summer School period, was also made yesterday. In order to meet the special needs of a limited number of students, the Summer School will offer tutorial instruction in certain departments. This work is open only to undergraduates in Harvard College, and will be similar in all respects to that given during the regular academic year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chase to Succeed Hanford as Director of the Summer School | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

...first rate professional cover; the kind of work that outside magazines are glad to buy. But Jones shows the defects as well as the virtues of the professional manner. He might have reversed his two characters, showing the student looking into the bulging skull of the professor, and with similar results. Similarly, the writer of the leading editorial views with alarm the CRIMSON'S baseball games with its esteemed contemporaries in Cornell and Princeton. He would have been more comical if he had congratulated these journalists on their willingness to learn a new trade before it is too late...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POWEL SEES IN LAMPY TENDENCY TO REFORM | 5/10/1927 | See Source »

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