Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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College graduates who have met successfully the stern problems of life are pre-eminently qualified to guide aright the steps of the undergraduate. Such sound advice as Dean Pound, Secretary Roosevelt, Colonel Woods, Colonel Roosevelt, and General Wood can give, will be of real, practical assistance to every one in facing these problems. Undergraduates must count the privilege of hearing these distinguished men as one of the most valuable features of university life...
...faculty and the undergraduates; he has turned from that bulwark of New England tradition-the Manuscript--to the "Americanism" and osmopolitanism" of Hearst. But never before the current number has he set himself up as a crusader. Now he has dropped his wonted jollity and dedicated himself to that "stern god, Caustic Alkali." He has shed his Jester's trappings, has taken on a snake skin, and, with adder's blood, pursues the vermin. phrosyne sits alone at home...