Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...backfield, Slagle and Caldwell, a two year letterman, are both fairly sure of positions. Other likely candidates are Sidney Legendre, brother of the Legendre of last year's University; Goldstein, a small but fast ground gainer; Williams, who nearly broke away for a touchdown in the Harvard game last year; Dignan and Gibson, both from the squad a year ago; and Weekes, a 1927 man, who made three touchdowns in scrimmage last Tuesday...
...Conference which nominated Senator Robert M. La Follette, and Weiss declare that the new party is "not radical but merely progressive." Even Coolidge supporters, they claim, admit that the La Follette-Wheeler ticket will carry every state in the West except Texas and Arkansas. Massachusetts is claimed as a sure Progressive state...
Students will fill out and hand in their application cards, as in the past, and will then go to the far end of the room and form a line at the cashier's desk. In the meantime the applications will be verified to make sure that the signatures are correct. Then the applications will be stamped with the receipt card numbers and the cashier will call off the names in order as they appear on the applications, and the student whose name has been called, will step up and pay the cashier for his tickets...
...senior colleges." This is a new theory of the liberal college. Neither the triviality nor the palpable irresponsibility of such descriptions of the new college have deterred editorial comment, however. The New York Times has solemnly frowned upon the mid-yearless innovation. In Abelard's time, to be sure, "there were no Carnegie units of admission; there was no college examination board." But we have travelled a long way upon the road of progress since those days. Our colleges have "evolved into stable institutions with trustees and bursars, with endowments of tradition and funds, with buildings upon which...
...youths soon to be submitted them for intellectual advancement. Some professors, some parents thus speculating read "Ferguson-Rex" by an anonymous contributor in the Atlantic Monthly for September. Ferguson is an undergraduate "leader," the college "man of the hour." The portrait is not without truth but is perhaps too surely executed. The contributor called himself " '90" and erred, admittedly, on the side of optimism and generosity where others of his age had erred in pessimism and bitterness. Still, Ferguson was a fair inkling. Said '"90": "His [Ferguson's] attitude toward his teachers and studies baffles a dull...