Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Recent examinations at the University of California have been employed to prove that the adult mind is superior to the youthful intellect in the acquisition of book learning. Although the results of these tests seem to demonstrate that mature persons absorb knowledge more efficiently, still it should be kept in mind that this condition is not entirely, or perhaps even partially, due to differences in actual ability...
...uniform of the Harvard band is criticized by a graduate in the current Alumni Bulletin on the grounds that it is "very, very high-schooly". This graduate feels that the martial strains the band produces and the precision of its military formations are far superior to the outward trappings of its members...
...town but that should not cause any great rush to the box office as "The Street Singer" is the typical type of entertainment offered to the not so discriminating audiences in the middle west. To be sure the piece improves as time goes on: the second act being far superior, due possibly to the fact that one becomes accustomed to the lack of good music and absence of a good comic character, the musical comedy...
Playing before a group of 600 spectators, the Graduate School of Business Administration student body touch football team held the faculty to a 7-7 tie, yesterday afternoon at the Business School field. The students scored early in the game through superior team-work, the teachers seemingly unable to get organized. After two long passes which had brought the teams to the faculty eight-yard line, S. C. Miller 2G.B. was sent through the center of the line for the touchdown. K. R. Ballantyne 2G.B. made the dropkick...
Children's Bureau, is a less scholarly humanitarian than her older sister, Professor Edith Abbott of the University of Chicago. But she is the more militant. Perhaps that is why she has risen to high administrative work in the government and is discussed as successor to her superior, Secretary of Labor James John Davis, who retires to join the 71st Congress as Senator from Pennsylvania when it meets this week...