Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have traveled in almost every Latin-American country, and I know that $10 worth of increased prestige for our country can be reaped for every dollar sown in providing better living and traveling quarters for our President and for his Ambassadors in foreign lands. As matters stand, foreigners visit Washington and then go home to tell their countrymen that our President lives like what Sinclair Lewis calls a "babbitt." I have heard "babbitt" picked up and used in this connection by foreigners several times. Do we want that to continue? HERBERT MILTON MAXWELL...
...bounded by Wall, High, Grove and York Streets. The old Hopkins Grammar School, now called Hopkins Hall, will be razed to make way for the new structure. The buildings will be Gothic in style, harmonizing with the Memorial Quadrangle and the Sterling Memorial Library, next to which they will stand. Three large open courts will occupy the center of the block. In one of them a small building providing temporary quarters for distinguished visitors to the School will be erected...
...buildings will contain dormitory accommodations for 238 men, a library of 250,000 volumes, class-rooms, seminars, offices, commons rooms, dining rooms, and an auditorium for gatherings open to the public. This auditorium, accommodating 600 people, will stand at the corner of High and Grove Streets. It will have separate entrances, so that it may be shut off from the School proper if desired. On the High Street front will be offices and seminar rooms, and above them, the library. The offices of the Dean and the Registrar will be placed in the corner of High and Wall Streets...
...judgment. It has accepted the most important suggestion, has admitted an open question and possible need for action in regard to the second in importance, and has turned down the one which remedied the lesser evil and which gave fewest indications of a practical improvement. Every revolutionary plan can stand some modification, the danger always being that the modifying process completely devitalize the original. The result in this case still retains much of its former power along with a few valuable additions...
...teams now stand the Juniors are leading with two victories and no defeats to their credit. The Seniors are second, having won one game and lost another. The Sophomores have two defeats chalked against them and as yet have won no victories...