Word: wording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then while the Vagabond was waiting to start on the royal road to romance for his glorious adventure, the nation's watchful press jumped on the job. Reporters from one of the great American journals got word of the matter. And it did not take long for these mighty and powerful servants of the public to find a nefarious British plot back of the entire excursion--subsidiary of the undergraduate press...
...criticism of Ernest Hemingway's best-selling novel, "A Farewell to Arms", reviews the progress this modern writer has made since his last novel. "The Sun Also Rises". Professor Charles Ball Grandgent's book of essays "The New Word", recently published by the University Press is among the books reviewed...
...word 'liberal' is curiously ineffective; so are the liberals themselves." Thus Professor R. K. Rogers '09, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology characterized this title and this group in a caustic speech to the members of the Liberal Club last night. "One would like liberalism if it were not for the liberals. In their ranks is a fringe of people which cannot be respected, and whose morals are often of doubtful calibre. As a type they are likely to go to extreme wrath with regard to some things, and then to have absolutely nothing to say concerning others...
...care what other people think. I admire Harvard for going its own way without trying to curry favor. It is a highly self-sufficient institution, not trying to follow the crowd. It does things as a gentleman. It does not have individual snobbishness in the ordinary sense of the word. Snobbery is one of the oldest Harvard traditions; a genuine snob will be either reactionary or radical, not conservative or liberal...
...again be subjected to the division which took place with the formation of the Scientific School as a separate school, and certainly Yale has not been extremely conscious that their separation has been an aggravating divisive factor. Initial pride in both the College and Sheff, still centers around the word "Yale," and the old succession of affections--university, class, society--still holds. There is no reason to believe, therefore, that the residential halls will injure a tradition which has withstood greater changes before. Yale is too vital a being to entertain these thoughts as even remote contingencies. --Yale News