Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affairs is deplorable, because it is not inevitable. There is at present manifest in the University a very considerable interest in intellectual things. The many discussion groups, the small informal gatherings for an exchange of ideas, the numerous outside speakers who are brought here formally or informally, give abundant proof that students are interested in other things than athletics or society. And when men who have now no apparent interest in their studies reach the law school, they talk "shop" from morning to night...
Moreover, the support which the Glee Club has already received this year and their extensive plans for a trip in the spring are proof that undergraduates are both willing to participate in and listen to good music. Never before has the Glee Club had so many members. They have shown courage in breaking away from old traditions, and, in offering better music, have set the pace for other colleges of the country...
That the University has lost the three games they have taken part in is no proof of their inferiority, inasmuch as they have been matched against the best of the American and Canadian teams. The sextet has played good hockey from start to finish, but the teams against them had too many men of individual brilliancy...
...face of all this they continuously vomit a volley of contemptuous statements about our government. They secretly concoct plans for the overthrow of law and order. It is to be regretted that there are some ministers and editors in the country who, in spite of absolute proof that the Reds have planned to overthrow this government, persist in fanning the flame of anarchism by urging from pulpit and press that these demons be coddled and petted and ultimately "Americanized." With what feigned anxiety they apprehend the approach of an autocracy where in there will be, and should be, a moral...
...existence of the soul previous to and independent of the body wherein it it housed is a fact as indisputable as that the sun, moon, and stars exist. We shall some day find in nature marvelous processes of which we are at present unaware and these will give definite proof to the skeptical that the soul can never...