Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the past few months, however, it has become fairly obvious that nothing can be done about cleaning up the mess, if everybody except a few fanatical teetotalers and topers remains silently acquiescent to a stupid compromise in which liquor is forbidden in order to please the days, and obtainable in order to satisfy the wets. If it is admitted that the vast majority of college men are dissatisfied with the present situation and that at least a good majority drink, according to their own confession, there will be cries against washing dirty linen in public, In the final, honest...
...Except for the early minutes, when Robert Brown scored to give the visitors a lead which was, for a while, hotly contested, the game was uninteresting, and the spectators were inclined to be critical...
...contest is open to any undergraduate of Harvard except those who have who in former years, and no registration or fee is necessary. The best preparation for the examination is to read all the current history that can be found in the daily newspapers, as well as in newspaper magazines according to Dr. Sly. The period covered is from April 1, 1929, to the date of the contest...
...immediate tax on the new enrolments in the school will not be found to be overburdensome except in a few cases. It is altogether justifiable according to the universal and inevitable need for more highly paid teachers. The significance of the step lies in the fundamental difference between an educational system with an immediate commercial point of view and one which has as an object, the development of the mind. To make the student an integral part of a business organization is altogether in keeping with an American capitalistic educational theory...
...kind of Manhattan clerk you see in the subway-talking loud and big, ogling flappers, staring down anyone who dared to meet his eye. This story tells how he spent a day, a night. As Jim is a perfect type, except for being a little more galvanically lively than the ordinary, his is a story that tells much about Manhattan, about the hundreds of thousands of Manhattanites he represents. He works because he has to, in order to have fun-also because he has to. His fun may seem cheap to you; it was expensive to him. One night cost...