Word: worded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major resolution passed by the Congress was a thoroughgoing 2,000-word affair savagely flaying the Conservative Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin for concluding their "secret" naval agreement with France (TIME...
...recent editorial in the columns of the CRIMSON advanced the thesis that undergraduates know what they want, and what they want is an education, in the academic sense of the word. That there was truth in this stand few will deny, and as few will probably take issue with the premise that the action of these two forces, the disappearance of glory from the undergraduate activity, and the bull movement in academic stocks, will tend eventually to the disintegration of many of the activities...
Perhaps a word as to the reason for the existence of the proctorial system at Harvard may not be malapropos. In short, the success of an honor system invariably depends upon solidarity of student opinion, which in turn presupposes a unified undergraduate body. At Harvard neither exists. The experiments with honor systems at certain other large universities have often been far from successful, and have shown that all concerned are much happier with proctors in charge of examinations...
...generation the citizen would as deftly sidestep an automobile as he now does a bill collector. But if the race is to be protected, presumably, by such laws, it no one is to be allowed to test his resourcefulness in the face of formidable mechanical foes, if, in a word, jaywalking is to become a lost, because illegal, art, agility in the human species is in danger of becoming a valueless and obsolete characteristic...
Many a Presbyterian, profoundly aware of the existence of Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin among their fellowship, waited his word. Would his silence have the effect of committing the entire church "to work, and pray and vote for . . . Hoover." Last week Dr. Coffin wrote a letter to the New York Times. Brief, compact, it follows...