Word: kernel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is a kernel of truth in this criticism, even though we approve of the rules. The whole tendency of college legislation, of late, has been to increase the burden of the student without releasing him from the petty annoyances that so often sour him. It is time to do away with a few of them. Two courses would have twice the value of four as a minimum for the senior. If the student is to be interested in his reading he must have time to be so. He cannot be while his life is one tedious examination after another...
...radicalism, and confers upon the worst of our deportees the unwarranted title of "martyr." Let us preserve that tolerance for which so many in the early history of America gave their blood, and take care that in threshing out the chaff of the ill we waste not a precious kernel of the Truth. NAT S. WOLLF OCC. DONALD C. PEATTIE...