Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prosperity, a Test. "The test which now confronts the nation is prosperity. There is nothing more likely to reveal the soul of a people. History is littered with stories of nations destroyed by their own wealth. It is true that we have accumulated a small but a blatant fringe of extravagance and waste, nourished in idleness, and another undesirable class who seek to live without work...
...think more of constitutional government than I do about the liquor traffic. I think that democratic institutions are passing through as severe a test as they have ever had or will have. Fascism on the one hand, communism on the other and a vast drove of timid souls in between make a pretty hard fight for democratic institutions...
Members of the Class of 1930 will have their final opportunity to compete for positions on the News and Photographic Boards, and the Editorial Department will receive aspirants from the Junior Class for the last time. Freshmen will be initiated into the competitive system of the CRIMSON in the test opened by the Business Department for the Classes...
...most salient generalization to be derived from Dean Hanford's thorough exposition of the conduct of the imminent Reading Periods is that the Faculty has "confidence in the ability of the student and in his desire to use the opportunities well." This, with the general undergraduate attitude eagerness to test the experiment and at least an open mind toward its possible results--is an encouraging augur for what must be admitted is an unknown field. Whatever be the outcome of the Period it will have been based on a mutual understanding of both Faculty and students. Each realizes that there...
Thus is another Utopia, soundly enough conceived, shattered by the test of reality, practice, human nature, what...