Word: abjectness
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...Probation is becoming a serious menace to Harvard athletics," said Assistant Graduate Treasurer T. J. Campbell '12 of the H. A. A. to the gathering of baseball candidates yesterday afternoon. "A stiffening of college requirements may have something to do with it; but the main cause continues to be abject loafing...
...question is one of approach rather than of godlessness. There is such a thing as primitive abject worship: there is such a thing as a sense of humor, and the two will clash as long as men are borer into this world. RICHARD RATUJE...
...endeavors to avert abject cessation of passive resistance in the Ruhr, there was one concession that Chancellor Stresemann always refused to make; there could be, he declared, no surrender of a foot of German territory. Speaking a few weeks ago at Marseilles, former Premier Briand, M. Poincare's immediate predecessor, declared that in the whole Franco-German problem, the question of security for France came first and the question of Reparations second. Relinquishing his position as a moderate critic of the government, he stated that under present conditions there could be only support for those at the head...
...sport in the hands of the undergraduates and graduates most concerned and which prevents the development of extreme professionalism in the person of an athletic dictator. Such a system has been the keystone of athletic policy at Harvard and has saved the College from the evil of abject submission to an all-powerful coach, which has been common in other colleges. But when the system of divided control encroaches on the efficiency of coaching and leads to a long string of defeats, it is time to call a halt and to readjust the emphasis And this, apparently, is what...
...stage when nothing is being said than when there is speech, and it is in his silences that Gilpin does some of his best work--though his speech, too, is excellent, and his rich, musical voice is a delight in itself. His gradual degeneration from brazen self-assurance to abject terror proceeds by subtle and orderly degrees, and carries the audience along in cumulative terror. In the first act, a dialogue between the pullman-porter, emperor and Smithers, a while trader on his island empire, is all that makes up the action; yet in it the whole exposition is stealthily...