Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Life" is so clever, so subtle, that one finds difficulty in knowing just what inference to draw from the editorial reprinted below. After much puzzling, the CRIMSON has begun to suspect that it is being treated to a dose of sarcasm. If we were "Life" or even Lampy, we should try to give payment in kind; but being only a newspaper we must reply on blunter methods. In passing, it might be remarked that partial quotation is virtually mis-quotation:--"Life's" summary of the CRIMSON's point of view is accurate, but it is incomplete...
McGraw is naïvely convinced that college training is ideal for the professional ball player. In fact, this idea is almost the central theme of his book. He dwells on it so fondly that the uninitiated might suspect the colleges existed solely for the purpose of producing intelligent ball players. Unconsciously Mr. McGraw has thus produced a piercing satire, far more brilliant than Mr. Edison's, against our reverent institutions of the so-called higher learning...
...painful scene in University 4, he goes west, heaves coal for a year, and becomes a man worthy of the girl he loves. It's not a startlingly unusual plot. The style is a bit childish in spots and sometimes a little too melodramatic, but never uninteresting. We suspect that Mr. Husband wrote rather hurriedly and failed to revise his work, since there are a number of contradictory statements. For instance, on page 31 we read that Arthur Clark had won his numerals in Freshman football; but on page 38 we find that he had been conditioned the first half...
...another provision of the law forbids the introduction of expert testimony by the defense. That is to say, the Clean Books League and the Society for the Suppression of Vice, who are backing the bill, can not hope for conviction if expert intelligence is brought to bear on a suspect author. They must rely on ignorance and prejudice...
...surprising to discover that Graduate School freshmen are actually as green as college freshmen are reputed. No one would suspect a Law School student of attempting to dodge the hard work obviously necessary for training a lawyer. Nevertheless, in order to protect the embryo Mr. Tutts from the fraudulence of note-sellers, four professors have had to resort to a court injunction against the most prominent offenders...