Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acquisition of Dr. Hooey's services by the Harvard CRIMSON marks the triumphal conclusion to an arduous search through all sections of the world for a suitable prognosticator of football scores to succeed Joe Forecast. Astrologers, crystal gazers, weathermen, whole tribes of gypsies, spiritualists, and all sorts of seers in all the far corners of the globe have been interviewed by CRIMSON agents since Joe Forecast first intimated some months ago that the rosy path of matrimony was going to lead him forever away from the printshops and football stadia...
Harvard University began twenty years ago to give courses in city planning. In 1909 special instruction in the principles of city planning was announced and given by the Faculty of the School of Landscape Architecture. That School, if not the very first, was among the first in the world to give collegiate instruction in city planning. In 1923 an option in city planning, leading to the degree of master in landscape architecture in the specially designated field of city planning, was established in the School of Landscape Architecture...
Once again it may be said that the world is divided into two classes, this time those who like the Marx brothers and those who don't. The assertion probably needs qualification to include those who have never seen the Marx brothers, if indeed any such still exist. It may be assumed that the latter class is in fact not a myth in order to justify a review of one of their productions; for the first mentioned class will go to see it no matter what the reviewer says, and the second mentioned couldn't by any amount of persuasion...
Three other newcomers are in Cambridge for the opening of Harvard's courses in Naval Science, Lieutenant W. E. Mackay, Lieutenant R. W. Berry, and Lieutenant, Junior Grade, R. B. McRight. Lieutenant Mackay was attached to bases in Ireland and France during the World War. He has seen service in the Philippines and China, and served tours of duty at the U. S. Naval Academy and the Naval War College...
Lieutenant Berry enlisted in the U. S. Marines in 1914 and served through the Haitian campaign of 1915-16. He served a Midshipman's cruise on the U. S. S. Wisconsin during the World War, and was graduated from Annapolis...