Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton plans called for a complicated system of examination by alumni boards to determine a candidate's personality,--whatever that means. Dartmouth is at present pursuing the same will-o'-the-wisp, now known as "well-rounded development on all sides". Instead of examining boards there are to be two elaborate certificates of "personal rating", one to be signed by the principal of the preparatory school, the other by "somebody actively connected with Dartmouth, either an undergraduate or recent alumnus". Every man will thus be hand picked, and enter the college sponsored by someone well acquainted with its traditions...
Thus does the restless sex pursue the will-o'-the-wisp of Equality. The curious thing is that woman and child labor laws have always been regarded as beneficial to the employee, and as such have been fought tooth and nail by the "moneyed interests. "Indeed, those states which load in such legislation have always been considered as the most progressive. Now that she has discovered that it is all a gigantic conspiracy on the part of the male population to keep her in bondage, emancipated Woman is determined to cast off these chains as well. She likes to think...