Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision of the University officials to allow men in good standing to cut classes immediately before and after single holidays can be received with nothing but loud acclaim by students. Harvard has already progressed further than any other college in the country in granting freedom to undergraduates and this most recent advance will undoubtedly prove as successful as the preceding ones...
...acclaim with which the Oregon system met in the recent Dartmouth-Harvard debate tent an impetus to its general adaptation by debating circles. Under the new procedure the first man on each team sets forth the arguments of his side. The second man questions the opposition, and one member of each team then summarizes the disputations which favor his contentions. The audience render the verdict after quizzing the participants to their own satisfaction. By combining the best elements of the Oxford system of free discussion and the present unsatisfactory American procedure, this most recent innovation in the sphere of intercollegiate...
...arguments as presented, should be a fairer criterion of the merits of the particular debaters than the decision of necessarily prejudiced experts. The Oregon system appears to be an answer to the existing demand for a more effective and valuable procedure in intercollegiate debating, and, judging from recent acclaim, bids fair to revive the dying popularity of the rostrum...
...tempest, came Irish yachtsman Edward Langtry, son of a Belfast ship-merchant. He was offered refuge with the Le Bretons, fell in love with the gloriously budding daughter, married her two years later, took her to London. There, in her 20's, she neglected Husband Langtry for social acclaim climaxed by the openly effusive attentions of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII). Lillie became an actress, enraptured England and the U. S. Her art lacked fire, but people went in droves with their opera glasses. In 1897 Lillie divorced Husband Langtry, long languishing mentally, physically, financially...
Succeeding scenes portray the "Little Corporal's" landing in New York amid wild acclaim, and the consternation of President Madison. Seemingly Mayor Herriot thinks that U. S. "minute men" would have flocked to Napoleon's standard, and that desertions from the U. S. Army would have been numerous. As the drama unfolds, the Emperor besieges Washington, which quickly falls. He then launches a prodigious war of conquest. "Within five years," patriotic Mayor Herriot has made Napoleon Emperor of the three Americas, great lord of all that lies between 'Alaska and the nethermost tip of Chile...