Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Custom, always moth-eaten and unimaginative, decrees that, in the phraseology of Olympus, there shall be a recess from April 19 to April 25 inclusive. This statement as included in sundry calendars of University affairs appears uncommonly bald and non-committal; but like the succinct phrases of the Parieal Regulations and communications from the dean's office, it covers an amount of ground in exact inverse proportion to the number of words involved...
...harsh things about others. But this time, if I am to be true to my own doctrine, I must. Of all the stupid, trite comedies that I have ever lived through, "The Rotters," the current attraction at the Copley is perhaps the stupidest and most trite. This statement I will repeat, figuratively and on paper, in the face of Mr. H. F. Maltby who wrote the words, and of every audience which holds its sides and roars at the inanities which come floating over the footlights...
Perhaps more than anything else, the Report of the Student Council Committee on Education has made the following newspaper statement approach actuality: "The college of the future, judging by present tendencies, will be decidedly cooperative, with the students sharing control". The report ranks with that of Dartmouth as being the most able document produced by undergraduates in this country. Conclusively it proves that the opinion of the student is valuable...
...York Times explained, regretted. Mr. Wheeler made no statement. But Peorians, their suspicion aroused, were not satisfied until next day, when reporters of Mid-West, papers vouched that they had seen the one-eyed one resting in his home, at Westerville, Ohio...
...Citizens of the U. S. favorable to the League of Nations recalled a statement of Sir Austen Chamberlain that the special Court conference is a mere common sense measure designed to get swift action upon the U. S. Senate's reservations by the nations already adherent to the World Court...