Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extent of the news to be covered will be from June 1, 1928 to the date of the examination, and the type of examination will be similar to those of previous years. Tentative arrangements provide sets of true-false questions and identity questions to be answered in one hour, and a group of short summaries in "editorial style" not exceeding some 250 words each on eight or ten questions to be selected from a designated list and to be written in two hours. The latter arrangement is intended to replace the "essay topics" that have formed part of previous examinations...
...clipping from the editorial page of the New York Herald Tribune that appears in another column is an excellent criticism of a type of writing that magazine readers have grown familiar with in recent years. Colleges and college students have been diagnosed as suffering from one disease after another, and where commercialism is now the sword hanging over their heads it is not so many years since football overemphasis occupied the same position. Sensationalism when it deals with the universities becomes dignified to critical analysis and holds prominent position on the title pages of publications of the highest rank...
...third movement (Allegro)--in reality a Scherzo of the most fantastic type, though not so marked--might well typify the riddle of the Universe. We indeed 'see through a glass darkly,' and yet there is no note of despair. Amid the sinister mutterings of the basses there ring out, on the horns and trumpets, clarion calls to action. While we are in this world we must live its life; a living death is unendurable. The Finale, Allegro maestoso, is a majestic declaration of unconquerable faith and optimism--the intense expression of Beethoven's own words, 'I will grapple with Fate...
...This new type of impassioned revival has swept from place to place, from college to college. Princeton, where the first headquarters were set up, was the first to banish all exponents of the new system. Not long afterwards also suffering from a similar agitation, Oxford students issued a loud and trenchant warning against what they believed harmful to the best interests of the University...
...launches are to be of the same type, but smaller, being 20 feet long with 60 horsepower motors. The "Red Top," as the first was named, was 27 feet long and had a 100 horse-power engine. The Greenport launches are built especially for crew coaching. They have the advantage, Coach Brown said, of leaving a very small wake...