Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since 1866, when Mother Advocate's ancestor was hushed up, student publications here have been unmolested. It has not been merely for want of offense. Some of Lampy's outrageous puns might well bear repression. But the University, often criticised by the western colleges for ultra-conservatism, has firmly established the freedom of the student press; Michigan, for one, seems to have retrogressed toward censorship by the authorities...
...Robinson stands in definite contrast to Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who will not relinquish the Republican leadership. Mr. Lodge is ultra-conservative and a sectionalist. His policies are much the same as those he expressed when he first came to the Senate 30 years...
...distances of stars. From the earliest times, the relative positions of stars or their apparent directions in space have been observed and measured with increasing accuracy. Before anything definite could be learned, however, as to the actual structure of the sidereal universe in which the earth plays its ultra-microscopic part, the actual distance to many of the brighter stars had to be measured. When Copernicus promulgated the heliocentric theory in 1543 through the publication of his epoch-making book. 'De Revolution-ibus Orbium Coelestium", it was seen that the motion of the earth in its orbit about...
...writer opens herself to a palpable counter-thrust. If college men are not numbered among the labor agitators, the Non-Partisan Leaguers, and other active ultra-modernists, is it necessarily because they have failed to consider these new movements? Such a conclusion smugly assumes that the movements are necessarily right, and that a failure to champion them is due to sheer ignorance. It is not beyond imagination to suppose that the college student might think otherwise, and that he shuns them not so much from ignorance as form too much knowledge...
...bill; Lew Dockstader, who brings himself up to date by a mechanical stratagem; the Courtney Sisters, radically different from each other in voice and appearance; John Steel, "the celebrated American tenor"; and Harry Breen, of whose act the public never tires. On the other hand, a distinctly ultra-modern tendency in dancing and dress is displayed by Mr. Bryan and Miss Braderick in "Bill Board Steps". A clever "rehearsal", with humour ranging from satire to slap-stick, is Vistor Moore and Emma Littlefield's skit "Change Your Act or Go Back to the Woods". Greenlee and Drayton offer some bright...