Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard there is concomitant miracle in the fact that there are few groups more miscellaneous than a Senior Class on Commencement Day. The Freshman who, during the next three days plans the details of an apparently all important schedule, cannot by any exercise of academic scrupulousness be sure of benefiting from Harvard. Four years are fleeting, and upon him they will leave no mark that is ineradicable at the hands of environment and fortune. Success depends, quite completely, upon his degree of accessibility to what Harvard offers. The Freshman fixes this degree himself, and it is the pitche...
...make doubly sure that the United States will never suffer the utter humiliation of hearing the furtive tread of the Tammany tiger in the corridors of the White House and in the vaults of the Treasury."-Dr. M. Carey Thomas, president-emeritus of Bryn Mawr College...
...autumn's elections. Last week the A. A. P. A. announced that it was writing to its 200,000 enrolment and asking $10 from each person. It promised to send the money "straight to the firing line" to help elect anti-Prohibition or modificationist Congressmen. Also, to make sure which men it wanted to support and which to fight, the A. A. P. A. sent questionnaires to all Congressional candidates...
...stay with the expedition. Two white boys who stowed away were put off ere the ship got out of the harbor because sailors heard them arguing. The black boy goes. The promoters of the first trip to the moon had better examine their rocket carefully if they would make sure that no adventurous Negro is aboard...
...Water Hole. As every cinemaddict knows, one of the sure-fire plots is the one about the vivacious, vampy heiress who is kidnaped by either a cowboy or an engineer who wants to tame the shrew. This time it (Jack Holt) is an engineer, though neither rod, bob nor transit appears in the Arizona locale. He abducts Judith (Nancy Carroll) because she won a bet with her cronies that she could make Engineer Randolph propose in a week. Hidden behind a window are the losing cronies who at the proper moment expose themselves, causing prodigious embarrassment to the engineer...