Word: using
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...only recently that large corporations have experienced the consequences of depleting the ranks of college faculties by offering lucrative positions to professors. They have found it to their advantage to make use of the high living costs and the meager professors' salaries as a means of luring valuable men away from the teaching profession. They have been only too glad of the chance to make converts to the industrial ranks at the expense of the colleges and universities...
...wholly unprecedented for Congress to use a Joint Resolution for terminating a state of war. Such a method will only serve to draw up into an even worse tangle than now exists. The most serious, however, is that which is entailed by the final rejection of the League. The League with all its acknowledged imperfections, is the only great piece of international construction which the war has produced. It is an experiment which aims to produce in time a better order, and its acceptance is demanded by an overwhelming majority of our people...
...contest will attract as much attention as the recent football game at Pasadena and yet to those interested in educational matters the event cannot but be of interest. Will we see at Sanders Theatre on the twenty-first a different style of debating than that to which we are used? Probably not, because after all forensic discussion is thousands of years older than football, and the style has not varied much during the centuries. The men who meet Washington will not wear togas which they will loop up with their left hand while they use the right for gestures...
...showing the Blue runners the way to the tape in the games this afternoon, and thus cornering the straw market at the "Coop." Meanwhile the proletariat in the cheering sections can only jingle loose pennies in the pockets of their ulsters, well-worn by frequent use in the last few weeks, and find paltry satisfaction in the alibi supplied by the Weather...
...most valuable features of the library is the shelves of recent books, which, through direct purchasing in the market, are acquired and set up for use several months in advance of all other University libraries. Through a system of suggestion books, in which members write the titles of volumes they wish purchased, the books bought are always those in demand, and sure to be well used. An especially popular corner is where the latest works of poetry are kept...