Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enters unwillingly the long stretch of examinations today, the undergraduate may well look backward and give thanks to President Eliot who gave him the elective system and the 14 day examination period that came with it. At the same time, he may be excused if he also looks forward to a golden future when some great educator will take that examination period away again, and, still leaving him all knowledge for his province, at the same time remove the harassing, mechanical restrictions that the curse of examinations has laid upon...
...THEATRE), whom he met at the Big Tent's door. He, his grandchildren and their maternal grandmother took seats in the third row not far from Mrs. Coolidge. Round the big ring slipped the introductory pageant of horses, elephants, clowns. The old man, Bear Coat, suddenly fell backward. A physician at hand caught him, carried him beneath the seats, took him outdoors. He was dead. There was little commotion. Mrs. Coolidge continued absorbed in the acrobats...
...Reeve, rowing at seat six in the Quaker shell snapped off, resulting from what appeared to be a crab, and after a few strokes, he let his oar go overboard, attempting for the balance of the race to pass the beat to the oarsmen behind him, going forward and backward on his slide with each stroke...
...Cambridge has evidently not struck terror to the hearts of at least one band of dealers in contraband goods. Those whom Dean Greenough has characterized as the "intellectual bootleggers" have once more made their appearance in Harvard Square with an entirely new line of surreptitious aids for the backward student. The old style of printed notes is evidently passe in the circles where such things are decreed and the very latest thing comes as a weekly magazine which "works while you rest...
...number of men may play on a side. Running with the ball will be allowed only backward and from side to side. More than two steps forward will cost the possession of the ball. The oval may, however, be passed in any direction, forward, sideways, or back Personal contact will be barred...