Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position for a young man to hold. An office in University Hall gives him a chance to try his talents at administrative work, leaving him at the same time the opportunity to teach without becoming a slave to research. He is an educator in the real sense of the word, having a hand in shaping the early training and planning the programs of thousands of students, and not depending solely on his ability to teach in his own specialized field to make his influence felt on the generations that come to college to fit themselves to life in the modern...
...dean is his most important characteristic. Unlike a great professor who can draw people to him by the wealth of his learning, however disagreeable and cantankerous he may be, a dean must inspire the respect and loyalty of everybody who deals with him. A chance or thoughtless word, though off-hand and unintentional, may convince an undergraduate that the heart of University Hall is black and malign. But, given a man with an attractive personality and the ability to manage people, the opportunities of assistant deans for influence in the educational world are infinite in scope and variety...
...cute" would be fatal to a serious word and "jimple" is simply senseless...
...hooey to "the American genius for making his language" with such a word as "Jimplecute...
Close on the heels of the completion of lively sessions by the Model League of Nations, in the midst of similar gatherings of the Model Constitutional Convention, and jumping the gun on the Model Congress of the United States scheduled for the heat of Milwaukee's July, came word at a late hour last night, of plans for the holding of a Model Supreme Court on June...