Word: sooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most cases of book--scribbling are as shameful as they are easy to prevent. With enforced laws, only fools would dare to continue such a practice. "The sooner Boylston Hall can break away from its lethargy and acceptance of such evils, the better it will be for the condition of the books themselves, and the pleasure of all who have to read them...
...Pinkle did not eat much lunch that day, and no sooner left his house than he commenced picking more leaves off more bushes. He grew tired of chewing on them or swallowing parts, so he merely picked the leaves and threw them on the ground. The act was somehow soul-satisfying, an opiate to his empty dull life...
This situation is certainly not ideal There are students who want tickets and cannot get them. Yet the scalpers have them, and to spare because they have ready capital, quick turn-over, and fabulous profits. The sooner this barnacle horde is strongly discouraged from its activities around Harvard, the more persons will witness the game who are entitled to and really deserve to see it. To all it must be plain: the Injuns on the Square this week are not from Dartmouth, and they are not on the square...
Pretensions of Science. "I am . . . convinced that science pursues a foolish and possibly fatal policy when it tries to keep up its bluff of omniscience in matters of which it is still woefully ignorant. Sooner or later the intelligent public is going to call that bluff, as it has already done in the case of ... other deflated specialists...
...principle purpose of the probe is to find out whether the four week period for keeping books should be reduced to two, and also if it would enable applicants for those books to get them sooner. In order to determine this it will be necessary to check carefully the lists of all books asked for and out of the library at the time...