Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of the change was to cover the deficit and to increase the salaries of the professors. Over eleven hundred votes were cast and a 567-548 majority for the affirmative recorded. While these results are far from conclusive, the heavy voting indicates wide-spread interest. From the vote itself the fact that a majority voted for increased tuition is a sign of idealism at Princeton worthy of its noted graduate and president. But in our opinion the minority-were right--although for different reasons perhaps than those for which they voted. Granted that there are many men in college...
...said that the debating team is the equivalent of at least half a course of college work. The judges of the university debates are nearly always members of the Supreme Court or other leading men of Massachusetts, Connecticut, or New Jersey. The debates therefore do not consist of spread-eagle oratory, but rather in the analysis of a given question, the construction of arguments, the selection and presentation of evidence, and the delivery of arguments in a convincing manner. Speeches are not written or memorized, but men are taught to talk on their feet...
...gained fresh confidence in the popular response to every forward stop taken by the Washington conference. They believe that public opinion has advanced far beyond the position taken by official opinion. They hold that anyone who invests in a closer moral and political organization of the world, in the spread of liberal ideas, or in the recognition of unselfish service to humanity, is buying into a rising market...
...need only array themselves as bearded assemblymen to pass unchallenged through the whole police force; poor factions--unable to support a lobby--may disguise themselves as representatives and vote in favor of their own bills. Indeed, the possibilities of disguise are so endless that the idea is bound to spread. It only remains for the lobbies to disguise themselves as the Ladies' Auxiliary to complete a tangle which even the great Sherlock Holmes could never unravel without the aid of a false nose...
...ominously long. Dr. Lee's recent report reminds us that the coming months are the lowest on the graph of average health. The press is filled with rumors of a new influenza epidemic. Surely we cannot afford to play with contagion here, where disease once started is apt to spread throughout the University like a forest fire. Fortunately, the cessation of classes offers a partial fire-break. But sore-throats and anesges are not to be tolerated; no man with even an incipient cold should shun the doctor's office. The service is free; the safeguard of an examination...