Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which, the young hopefuls are fond of asserting, bears close resemblancme to the millenium. The Yale Daily News, however, declares that it is abandoning this egotistic bombast: the new board offers no "elaborate platform"; conservatism will be the watchword, and the new editors will not rashly discard the traditions...
Founded at Zurich, 1523, the Mennonite faith soon afterward received its name from its ablest early exponent, Menno Simons. This young onetime Catholic priest chanced upon some tracts of Martin Luther, experienced regeneration. But he devised tenets more like those of the Quakers than Luther's. Mennonites discard priesthood, own no authority outside the Bible and "enlightened conscience," stress the sanctity of human life (hence will not fight in any war) and "a man's word" (hence never swear...
...take it, largely for the purpose of forming a definite conclusion as to the strength of this interest that the meeting today has been called. Under these circumstances it would indeed be unfortunate if the attractive plan which the Administration has to offer is allowed to slip into the discard merely because of the inertia of that part of the student body which has at present no opportunity for taking their meals quietly and in the congenial company of interesting friends...
...course of study in an American college, I take it I have spoken so much on this and so often that I need to say but little. I am quite sure that as to the course of study, we have got to discard the elective system, if we are going to have a community of learning, and have a definite course of study. We must have all the members of the community engaged in the same intellectual enterprise. Our system as it is separates knowledge into parts and sends each member of the community to a collection of some...
Captain Coady appeared at the field yesterday afternoon in civilian clothes and walking with a cane which he hopes to discard tonight, in order to be in uniform tomorrow. Kilgour was another who watched the practice in mufti. Bruen, substitute guard who has been out for two weeks, was dressed, but did no work. Guarnaccia did not report...