Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard can be considered different from some of our western Universities. In them the attitude of "collegiatism" seems, if anything, to have increased; whereas at Harvard, and also other colleges which have adopted the tutorial system, fewer and fewer are coming to the college just because it is the "thing to do." A far greater proportion of men go with a critical attitude. They weigh what they see and hear, and draw therefrom their own conclusions. The college itself is to be thanked for the growing prevalence of this attitude, and is to be respected accordingly...
...with a lot of other theoretical high brows, Heywood Broun, for instance, always wanting some Red or Pink communist to be allowed to run loose, defame the government. . . . I cannot understand a man born and raised in a New England state like Vermont where there are no such things as radicals and Pinks and long haired agitators, upholding this sort of thing and I have no patience with such things. I was glad when even the N. Y. World, I think it was, threw Heywood Broun out of its writing staff and if more radicals were bundled together and shipped...
...rasped in a monotone. Then he began to finger his throat, and inflected words ensued: "After I lost my voice I could not bear it-to be a dummy, to talk with my hands. . . . I used to play the organ and knew how you can force air through a thing and get sounds. . . . There I got my idea. It took lots of practice to learn to talk again. The flesh had to be hardened and trained." Regally gossipy was Florestan Aguilar, Viscount of Casa Aguilar, of Madrid, in Chicago to be made an Honorary Fellow of the American College...
...People call up asking the oddest questions. Although this bureau is for general University information, we receive innumerable requests for data concerning every type of thing. Directions to do with Harvard are one of our most ordinary troubles...
...been altogether wise to place the management of the concessions in the hands of the College Employment Office is another matter. Already there has been friction between the two organizations of a sort which augurs ill for the success of the project. After all, employment is one thing and business management quite another and it is unreasonable to suppose that the two activities may be happily combined. The obvious method of securing an equitable distribution of jobs between athletes and non-athletes is to have this phase of the situation handled by the Employment Office. The actual direction...