Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England as a whole and Boston in particular have a reputation to sustain. Law and Order, Liberty, and the Constitution have always found staunch support in the much maligned New England conscience. Other states may continue in their sordid ruts interpreting and tampering with the old traditions to suit their shifting advantages, but not so Massachusetts. Webster's is dangerous; the edict has gone forth; let it be abolished, even tho this mean Funk and Wagnall's, phonetic spelling and a thoro reconstruction of the language thruout the land. What matters while the old stock lasts...
...Americans are terrible fellows for curiosity. One of them, coming to England for the first time, had beguiled his leisure on the boat by reading the "Tales of a Traveller" by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., and nothing would suit him on landing but to ask to see the place where they put away "Kidd, the Pirate," as that very gallant gentleman is discourteously called. "Kidd, the Pirate," indeed; but this is not all; he is variously described by Mr. Crayon...
...University is to compare favorably with the other teams which Oxford plans to meet on the expected trip, a far greater interest much be taken in debating. The possibilities are wide. Yale is considering favorably a similar challenge and it is to be hoped that the University will follow suit...
...plain citizen" sums up the effectiveness of the story, which raises it above the run of its kind. Except for one or two stock figures, the story is about "plain citizens", among them a fascinating child in a "bunny suit", developed by excellent touches of characterization and woven into a narrative that so closely parallels real life that one finds one's self, more than once, experiencing the same reactions as the characters. The style is especially smooth flowing, and enlivened with sparkling glances of natural humor and keen appreciation of situation...
...graduate schools as one of their graduate schools a course of training in journalism. Here men learn what instructors in an art, still in its period of elementary development, can toach--proper business and news gathering methods, administration and organization, editorial composition, and kindered subjects. Harvard has not followed suit, probably because such training is still primitive and of doubtful value. At the same time, a considerable number of the men, having been graduated from the University, are going into newspaper work. While a schools of journalism is not under consideration, there is a step toward developing a definite preparation...