Word: baled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trade dollar of 1873 shows Liberty wearing a diadem, seated on a bale of goods...
Last week Dr. Covington ploughed through a bale of papers submitted by his present juniors and seniors. He averaged their marks, found that they had recognized 93 of the 100. Routing out the marks of 1916 he announced that the average student vocabulary was clearly increasing. Today it included 93% of his list as against 86% a decade back. He declared the 1% improvement was due to increased newspaper reading and to the prevalence of hobbies nowadays. Every hobby teaches words. He announced: "These figures are not startling, but they seem indicative of an improvement. We cannot think without tools...
...Harvard was given all Sheldon's career. Son of a Maine clergyman, he was born in Waterville on November 21, 1851. It was an bale family: one of his brothers won distinction in law, another in medicine; a sister was one of the most effective teachers in Boston. After graduating from our College in 1872, with Highest Honors in Modern Languages, Sheldon spent years in study abroad, mostly in Berlin and Paris. In 1877 he was made Instructor in Modern Languages. Not until 1884 was he definitely assigned to the Romance side, which he regarded as his own; in that...
Kenneth Macgowan '11, co-director with Robert Edmund Jones '10 and Eugene O'Neil '16 of the Greenwich Village Theatre in New York and Philip Bale, Boston theatrical critic, are the two men who have recently risen to deny that Harvard has allowed "its theatrical interests to go into blue obscurity." Both these men find in the Dramatic Club a worthy successor to the 47 Workshop...
...similar mind is Philip Bale, who under the title of "The Dramatic Renaissance at Harvard," writes in an optimistic vein on the Harvard dramatic situation. Referring to the Dos Passos '16 play, "The Moon Is a Gong", which, according to Hale, marked a new area in Harvard dramatics, the Boston reviewer writes in part...