Word: slamming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...misses, perhaps, something in the nature of the essay. What has become of the periodical slam at the Classics--or the teachers of them, for the Classics themselves are impregnable--which we seem to remember in ante-bellum days? Yet the crisp editorials attest the power to produce the essay. A typical one, on the S. A. T. C., if rather one-sided and possibly even unfair, rigorously expresses what most of us think about the relation between College and the Government; and the reverent and discerning words of the editors on Theodore Roosevelt recall his connection, while in College...
...competition is made up of Edward Bangs Drew '63, of Cambridge, who has served in the Chinese Customs and Postal Departments for many years; Jens Iverson Westengard, LL.B. '98, Bemis Professor of International Law in the University Law School, who for several years was Advisor to the Government of Slam; and Edward Caldwell Moore, Parkman Professor of Theology, and Chairman of the University Board of Preachers. Details of the competition will be announced shortly by the committee...
...Cosmopolitan Club will held its second meeting of the year in the club rooms at 7-3 Holyoke House this evening at 8 o'clock. Professor J. I. Westengard of he Law School, for 12 years General Adviser to his Siamese Majesty's government, will speak on "Modern Slam...
Such is the established policy of weekly journals. Slam the undergraduate and especially slam the professor. Woeful indeed is such ignorance. Yet those editors of this periodical who have taken History 1 in the University should know that if Gallipoli and Saloniki are unknown to students it is not the fault of the course. It is true that the earnest student is so swamped with work in learning what men have written in the past that he must largely defer until graduation the pleasanter task of reading what they are writing now. Even so, he grows while in college...
...Passos presents us with two stories, a slam at the proverbial American abroad, not at all pleasant, and the history of a school boy's study hour. The latter pleases better, partly because it contains more of the author's delightful description, partly because of the ephemeral subject, which suits...