Word: student
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facto President of Stanford in the absence of Dr. Wilbur. Her chief qualities: imperturbability and omniscience. She out-poker-faces that other Helen of California, and she knows instantly every rill of information that affects or may affect the University. Is there an unwise movement developing in the student body? She touches invisible button number one, and the matter ends. Does a faculty member sponsor a doubtful local issue? Invisible button number two avoids the difficulty, and it is done so skillfully that neither student nor faculty member holds the slightest rancor, nor in fact quite knows...
...Then he reminded me of a night when we had a frugal supper together in a Bloomsbury restaurant?it must have been 40 years ago?when he was a medical student and I was a city clerk. Our combined wealth was insufficient to save us from walking as far as Holloway station...
...lifelong student of language, Laureate Bridges has now justified his reputation. The English language, unlike Latin, Greek or French, is supposedly incapable of quantitative versification: i. e., the scansion of English verse is not dependent on "long" or "short" syllables since there is no such formal distinction between syllables in English. Sensitive ears, like those of Laureate Bridges, however, permit a treatment of English as Virgil treated Latin, with heed to both "long" and "short" syllables. When he speaks of "loose alexandrines" he is cracking a scholarly joke, for his careful quantitative measurement makes every line scan perfectly. The spelling...
Last week President James Carey of Princeton's Class of 1929 apologized to President John Grier Hibben of the University and offered damage payment for his classmates' vandalism of last June when they overturned and tried to abduct the Christian Student, allegorically righteous campus statue, perennially daubed by undergraduates and alumni with beer, flour, paint...
...editor of the 1933 Red Book and his associates will be selected next week, it was announced yesterday by S. L. Batchelder '31, chairman of the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs, who heads the temporary executive council of the Class of 1933, which is composed of the chairmen and treasurers of each Freshman Hall dormitory committee...