Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a typewriter--which by the way is "Ami et a mijge imean a midgt, made of alumium."--renders one helpless with mirth; while his essays on The Grasshopper, The Art of Poetry, and About Bathrooms, are inimitable. Their humor is somewhat more restrained than that of A Criminal Type, from which we quoted above, as also is that of Reading Without Tears: but perhaps for this very reason they are even more delightful and valuable. For impertinent audacity what can equal the following extract from Wrong Numbers, a game of unconscionable impersonation on the telephone, invented by the author...
...type of examination for college students which "affords no chance for the bluffer to exercise his arts and removes the examination from the category of sporting propositions", is being tried out at Columbia University. Instead of asking a few questions on the high spots of the course and encouraging lengthy answers, the new examination consists of a large number of statements concerning matters previously gone over, some of which are true, and others false. The student is asked to place a plus sign next to those he considers true, and a minus mark beside the false. This takes...
Dean Hawkes said today the tests have made for more accurate grading and that the students consider the new system fairer and more satisfactory than the old essay type. "The clever student whose verbose knowledge of a few topics can be stretched to appear to advantage, whatever question may be asked, is left stranded", he said. "With the new examinations he is shooting with a rifle instead of a shotgun". "The Purdue Exponent...
...were not. And so an appeal was made to the amateurs of the country through their national organization. To the everlasting glory of these splendid young men, be it known that they responded nobly. Almost over night the Army and Navy found themselves supplied with thousands of the finest type of young man the country affords, skilled not only in radio operating but entirely familiar with the complex apparatus. To a man they had built several of everything to do with a radio station, and although the military aparatus was larger and more powerful and more perfectly built, the principles...
...when Kernan, the Blue left guard, scored, it looked like a Yale spurt, but the great defensive play of Black and Rudofsky, aided by baskets by McLeish and Gordon and points from free tries by McLeish, checked the rally. Because of the fact that the teams played the type of game shown in the Intercollegiate League, there were few fouls called and both fives played defensive ball throughout...