Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under pretext of conducting a group of U. S. clergymen through the University, last week, strapping Missionary Zwemer began to distribute Presbyterian tracts. Soon some hundreds of the students became excited by this apparently inflammatory literature. One unshakably Moslem student sought to tear the last of the tracts from Dr. Zwemer's potent fist, but other students barkened for a time to his loud, impressive words...
Poles under sentence to hang were worried. They know that a noose smartly drawn up (with knot close under one ear of the condemned) will bring instant, pain less death, by snapping the neck. Such have been the nooses of experienced Hangman Maciejewski, a onetime medical student. On the other hand, a loose and slovenly noose brings slow strangulation, lingering agony...
Engaged. Corliss Lamont, graduate student at Columbia University, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont, of Manhattan; to Miss Margaret Hayes Irish, of Troy...
...officials will be easily distinguishable upon the field of play. R. U. M. Whortleberry, graduate student in the Cornell School of Dentistry, who is an expert at the noisy collection of superfluous bluebooks, will beam happily at any question and bring in the ink, Q. Caboose, graduate student from N. Y. U. who hates undergraduates, will wear pince-nez glasses and a soiled collar. And Johan Wisteria, former student of the drama at Yale, the Tubercular Cough in several plays by Eugene O'Neill, will be identified by his stage whisper and his inability to diagnose approaching rupture until...
...operation, the requirements of a major course of study produce an entirely different result. The case of English, the most popular subject for the major study, and the most striking example of disorganization, is worth consideration. A Freshman course takes the student over a few high spots in literature which include entirely distinct and separate introductions to Shakespeare, Carlyle, Ruskin and a few others, studied without reference to their relative importance or period. The student may at his option, follow this by a slightly more coherent Sophomore course in which he begins the process over again, landing...