Word: ve
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years," said Mr. Stonaker, "since I've been on the Princeton to Princeton Junction branch, and college boys have changed a lot since I started. They ain't so kiddish as they used to be now they're grown up like and act like...
Asked about hazing, the veteran railroad man replied, "There ain't no hazing no more at all, but they sure used to make it hard for the freshmen when they did. Many's the time I've seen freshmen rolling peanuts down Blair steps with their noses. There again the boys are too old now, too grown up and 'fastiddynus'! why the boys all look like President Hibben...
...Here's the record of one boy I've just employed," this man continued. "At the end of his freshman year he went for one month to a citizens' military camp: after sophomore year he worked for six weeks with Dr. Grenfell's mission in Labrador; at the close of junior year he had a month and a half with the Banks fishing fleet and after graduation he spent July and August with a forestry outfit. All of it was open air work, putting him in good physical condition and in touch with all sorts and conditions...
...wonderful guy, you know. I've never seen a man work so hard before. Get me? Once a show starts he never leaves it from the first rehearsal until it's several, weeks under way--that's where his success lies. He is always prowling around, fixing up things here and there well so long kid were off to the big city...
...students found questions revolving in their minds. They attended "colloquia" where they could ask their questions for any one to answer. Most of the questions exhibited a naīve idealism and an insistence on the particular rather than the general. Said one student: "Would it be possible for Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism to be worked together into a whole?" "It would not," said Dr. Francis C. M. Wei, President of Central China Christian University. Many asked: "Can't the missionaries bring Christ to the foreign fields without also bringing Christianity or Christian Civilization?" One asked a question...