Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...government is necessary at times, but should never be continued for a moment after its necessity ceases. We want to get back into our normal form of government and get out of our immense national expenditures. We are now thinking of government expenses in terms of billions instead of millions; we should think in terms of millions rather than billions. We want to get rid of our army of unemployed; get back to an economical system of administration. We should build up a budget system, to be prepared by or under the direction of the President, which contains estimates...
...second regatta of the ladder tournament will be held today. A full half-mile course has been laid out and buoys placed to mark the start and finish, instead of the three-eighths mile course which was used last week. All crews have challenged those immediately above them, and the races this afternoon will be held between crews adjacent to one another on the ladder...
...through wearing overalls may slightly reduce the price of other clothes, but if the amount so saved is spent on other goods,--food, automobiles or diamond rings--the prices of those articles is bound to rise in response to the increased demand. Only through greater production and general saving instead of spending can real living costs be lowered...
...Instead of the clinking of glasses, there is the clicking of chips. The pleasant gurgle of heavenly liquids gives way to a soft chant of "come 'leven" and rumbling of ivory over wood. Pay nineteen! We wonder if this change has been all for the good. This new method of removing undergraduate inhibitions has certain disadvantages over the old. "A big head is better than an empty purse" is attributed to Epictetus. The road to freedom from the worries of exams and cuts is much smoother when it runs through fragrant vineyards than when it winds across the chequered fields...
...function of a university should be to teach the youth how to think, that Harvard teaches only what has been thought. Quite true. But he is a more skilful wrecker than builder. His Ideal University is unconvincing. Certainly this college and other American colleges are busied in filling brains instead of developing minds. This is inevitable. The present academic system, bad as it is, results naturally from the fact that the majority of college students are not students at all; they are guests of an institution which will, after four years, provide them with a document valuable to the continuity...