Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stage productions after long runs, like most old maids, need rejuvenation. Their bill-boarded success of so many months deserves our attention only when their managers realize that nothing can stand still; a play must go either forward or backward. So "The Blue Paradise" comes to Ye Wilbur Theatre crowing over its Broadway success, which was undoubtedly merited-one could see that from the number of missed opportunities-but evidently no renovating has taken place since the initial performance...
Although present weather conditions point to an even more backward season than last spring, the University tennis team will not suffer appreciably thereby. Last year, trials for the team began as late as March 30, but this year it is extremely doubtful if the courts will be ready for use much before April 10. This is only five days before the first game of the season, that with the Agawam Hunt Club at Providence, and but a week before the opening game of the southern trip, with the Philadelphia Cricket Club. By practicing daily for the last month...
Perhaps the common attitude toward aviation as merely a dangerous pastime has arisen through the backward policy of the United States army and navy in training so few aviators and in training them in poorly constructed machines, so that the number of accidents has been unusually high...
...abundance of candidates for fall rowing this season has necessitated these additions to the coaching staff in order to ensure everyone a fair share of coaching and to lessen the danger of keeping good men in inferior crews where they would go backward rather than advance in ability...
...entire front of the building, is the main centre for the majority of the students. To reach the second floor from the front entrance hall, one goes up the central staircase to the level of the Memorial Hall, and then follows either of the two flights which turn backward and upward towards the front of the building. To the left is a short corridor from which rise the stairs to the third story and at the end of which is a special reading room now used for periodicals. The stack level opens from the back of this reading room...