Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union League chefs had outdone themselves. Dinner was sumptuous. Afterwards, the diners removed to the Club's auditorium, Lincoln Hall, where some 3,000 persons and personages were packed in a space designed for 1,200. President Sproul brought all to their feet when he said to President Coolidge...
...rights of the individual never so extensively protected. . . . No one would claim that our country is perfect. . . . Yet . . . a nation, which has raised itself from a struggling dependency to a leading power in the world, without oppressing its own people and without injustice to its neighbors, in the short space of 150 years, needs little in the way of extenuation or excuse...
When the Vagabond set out today, he had decided to say a few words about the imminent holiday, and was already turning over on his pen luscious phrases in preparation for the more substantial interests of tomorrow. But for that there is now no space, and he will only stop to list the sweetmeats of today's intellectual fare...
...recently taken of the Freshman class at Princeton it was disclosed that over two-thirds of the men were the sons of parents who had over gone to college. Although the report has been non-committally received by the newspapers of the country, receiving no where near so much space as the announcement that the doctrines of Judge Ben D. Lindsey may no longer appear in the papers of several western colleges, the facts seem to be educationally very significant...
...comparing the curricula of the various colleges in respect to the amount of space occupied by the ancient languages, it is very difficult to reach an exact conclusion. The reason for this is that whereas two courses, may be labelled, say, "Athenian Tragedy," one of them may take up twelve plays and another six: or of two courses in Roman Satire one, may include about twice as much as the other. Therefore, when one discovers that Princeton has 12 courses in Greek, Dartmouth 10, Yale 9, Cornell 8, Columbia 7, Williams 6, and Harvard 5, it is hard to draw...