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Certain readers are ever fond of rushing into print and obscuring the points at issue. Would Mr. Young [TIME, Oct. 5, LETTERS], tell me in what dictionary he found "bathysophical" ? I have searched in vain in Webster's, Stormonth, The Century, Concise Oxford, Pocket Oxford, and if I had access to the great Oxford I am not so sure that I should have found...
...first time this season; Butterworth, who has been acting captain, is out with an injury. Coach Jones has shifted the Yale line considerably since last Saturday. Today Joss and Benton will be at tackle in place of Butterworth and Richards, with the latter taking over Root's guard position. Webster, also former tackle, is at the other guard vice Wortham, and Burt replaces Sturhahn at center...
...ushers representing the University are F. P. Kane '26, R. H. Dyer '26, A. H. O'Neil '28, W. L. Tibbetts '26, W. I. Nichols '26, and Le B. R. Barker '26, D. J. Worthington, C. E. Allen, J. P. St. Clair, C. D. Webster, F. N. Blodgett, E. C. McClintock have been named the Dartmouth ushers...
Gregory Kelly, best recalled as Willie Baxter in Seventeen is his "Butter and Egg Man*," and a better performance could not be desired. Sylvia Field is the little stenographer with whom he falls in love, and Lucille Webster is the wisecracking elderly female who used to juggle Indian clubs in vaudeville...
...constant rule. I come across in the issue of Aug. 24, Page 18, Column 2 a very strange word-"bathysophical". What meaning that can convey to those who have little Latin and less Greek I should not venture to say. Search in the dictionaries and Concise Oxford, Webster Century is in vain. The contex would give to one knowing its Greek roots the meaning "deep sea enthusiast". Then why not use that adjective? But "bathysophical" requires some mental conjuring. And then you are uncertain...