Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marsters, a Sophomore back whose accurate passing has been the marvel of the spectators who have watched the Green in action this year. He also ranks as one of the fastest running backs on Eastern gridirons...
...Perry '28, president of the Dramatic club, confirmed his action in seeking Mr. Woolley's services. He said last night that the club had tentatively planned to give two plays in this fall's production, and with this end in view had planned to have Mr. Massey direct one and Mr. Woolley the other. Since Mr. Woolley is unavailable, however, Perry declared that only one play will be presented this autumn...
Hanover, N.H., October 18. The four backs and two ends of the Dartmouth football team will resemble hockey players more than gridiron specialists when the Green goes into action against Harvard Saturday, for those six men will wear shorts with knee pads and long stockings, instead of regular football breeches. The purpose is to free the movements of the backs and ends to make greater speed possible, and to identify the men eligible to receive forward passes. The Harvard game will be the first in which the new uniforms will be worn...
...system of secondary education than the governments of advanced institutions. Elementary courses are offered not because they are elementary but because presumably they fill a need. That need once removed, the vacuities in the Freshman mind once made whole with a firm foundation, the courses, theoretically, should cease. Such action has been evidenced in the College by announcement that English A exemptions are allowed to men whose abilities have been tested and found worthy...
...story of Baron Melchoir Von Dronte's experience in the see-thing and chaotic countries of France and Germany in the late Eighteenth Century, the admirable blending of the supernatural and picturesque, the touch of fantasy, and the vigor of its action, place this book well above Bram Stoker's "Dracula" as a tale of a life hereafter. With the well-told description of Von Dronte's early life the author skillfully disarms the reader of his will to disbelieve, and, having gained his confidence and credulity, he adroitly weaves his weird spell...