Word: even
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Chase seeks a measure of consolation with the guess "that a parallel study for Yale or Princeton would prove even more melancholy." Whether he is correct or not in this surmise is unimportant. The fact remains that college men as a whole are not entering the field of politics, but at the same time are as rigorous as any in expressing their dissatisfaction with the government of today...
...foreign friends have been poking fun at American culture, and even doubting the existence of it, for a long time. The exasperating question of Sydney Smith more than a century ago is well remembered; and he was not the first, as certainly he was not the last, to deride us. James Bryce handed down an indictment or two and Siegfried and others have expanded his question into volumes. The tone has become more bitter since the United States became the creditor of Europe. The critics make few allowances for the youth of the nation. They compare our developing civilization with...
...Moreover, workers in chemistry, biology, geology, and even economics are coming more and more to realize that the rate of progress in these fields, under modern conditions, is directly proportional to the amount of mathematics they...
...chorus takes the booby prize for pulchritude and doesn't even dance well enough to justify their existence. There is the almost inescapable collection of humanity known as chorus men about which the less said the better. All in all the Street Singer can be given the miss in balk without any qualms...
...into many out of the way corners of the University. His latest excursion ended up in the Mineralogy lecture room in the depths of the Geology Museum where Professor Palache was lecturing on Diamonds. The subject was a fascinating one, but what aroused the interest of the Vagabond even more was the personality of Dr. Palache. Here was the scientist type at its best. A rather elderly bearded man whose enthusiasm for his subject was apparent in every phrase contrived to transmit his enthusiasm to the audience whose absorbed interest made them hang on every word. Incidentally, Professor Palache...