Word: cleanness
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...training--"literature, science, history, and the knowledge of men", as opposed to absolute concentration in one intensive field. The danger in a single-track education can be well summed up in the words of a successful flood-engineer of the Middle West:--"I trained myself to go out and clean up my field, to make a million and then quit. I've got that now, but what am I going to do with it? I have absolutely nothing to fall back upon...
Under, the direction of Chairman Wadsworth, a clean-up drive will be instituted at a meeting of the Finance Committee in the Standish Hall Common Room on Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. This drive will begin the following day, and will last one week. The attention is to collect the rest of the $4000 quota...
...with aspects of education not before breathed at that meeting of that provincial assembly. "Naturally", he said, "in considering a question of this sort I turn first of all to the experience of other nations". Then, in that exquisitely finished English style of which he is past master, luminous, clean cut, succinct, he proceeded, in half the time the least voluminous of his predecessors had taken, briefly to sum up analagous educational conditions in England, France, and Germany, to deduce his conclusions, modified by conditions of American life, clearly stated, and to give his answer. "Therefore", he said, "from...
...University gym team suffered its third defeat of the season when it lost to Princeton Saturday by the score of 45 to 9. The Tigers clearly outclassed the Crimson in every event, making a clean sweep in the rings and in the tumbling...
...even approaches absurdity. Since his first novel, Mr. Fitzgerald has joined the ranks of the "HaHa" school of ironists. He has made every effort, sometimes it seems through a natural perversity, to mock every one of the aspirations of his characters. Gloria desires above all to be thought clean and in the end she becomes unclean. The writer, Richard Carmel, does not intend to prostitute his art and finally he takes to writing best-sellers. Compared to the Fates of Mr. Fitzgerald, those conceived by Thomas Hardy are a trio of well-intentioned, kindly old ladies taking afternoon...