Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calculus theories and geometrical figures are the latest thing in intercollegiate competition. From official sources at Oberlin College comes the assertion that number one battle among mathematical sharks takes place in April...
Featuring a "word to the wise" one article says, "When the moon comes up over a silvery southern sea, and you stand on the promenade in your gold formal with a big handsome thing, watching the porpoises playing around the stern of the ship--then beware, if your friend is a Harvard...
...Well, it's baggy enough, all right. But I want mine like the rest of the fellows are wearing--one of those new kind with the classy suede patches over the elbows. Thy're the latest thing with upperclassmen, you know. When in Rome...
...operate at a profit, and thus are unable to keep up their scholastic requirements and standards. The result is that many institutions practically guarantee a degree to any student who can pay four years tuition. Thus students, who can pay the price, go to college because it is the thing to do, or because it seems to hold the key to financial success in later life, and they spend four aimless years wasting their own and the college's time...
...sold more than 66,000,000 bushels of grain for its members, but the only time it made any kind of profit was in 1931, when it was broker for the Grain Stabilization Corp., working for Herbert Hoover's Farm Board. A profit was such a remarkable thing for Farmers National that a few years later it was investigated by the Senate, with no particular result...