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...English, the Foundation found, "students drop the study as freshmen, and literary knowledge tends to disappear. ... As for vocabulary . . . the effect of college . . . appears to be almost negligible and in some cases positively injurious. ... To a senior with average score the word benighted means weary, recreant means diverting and spurious means foamy. Possibly the fact that he takes the word assiduous to mean foolish may help explain his case...
...political 'machines' now serve as mediators between the bourgeois and proletariat classes, and are in effect, paid commissions by the business men for so doing. If public utilities were taken from the control of the state, all necessity for such 'machines' would be obviated, and their accompanying corruption would disappear...
...himself along the sides, while tourists hung over the rail taking his picture. Sailors said his object was to rub the barnacles off his back, but whatever the reason he would gambol with the steamer until it reached the end of the Pass (15 or 20 minutes) and then disappear until next day's boat. On one occasion he was fired on from a certain steamer and ever afterwards was never seen when that particular boat made the trip-an intelligent as well as a cheery soul. He had the rare honor of being protected by Act of Parliament...
...political border which separates us from the Free State is to disappear at the waving of some mysterious wand." commented the Belfast News Letter. "Mr. de Yalera expects a series of miracles to occur...
...have carried their inexcusable practices with them into the House Plan. In the transfer, some new tricks have been added to those well known at Widener in days before the introduction of a strict administration, buttressed by turnstiles; but the general methods remain the same. Books in especial demand disappear before every important examination. New rules restricting members to their own House library and confining the use of overnight books to the House from which they were issued are flagrantly violated...