Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work done in summer vacations. At present the average man feels that reading done independently and without coercion is very fine but it has little to do with his scholastic success in college. He must eventually learn, however, that reading with or without an incentive is seldom quite barren of results. Even in August an afternoon spent looking at a book must leave some impression on the mind, the exact permancy being determined by the book which gives and the mind which receives the impression. Therefore the slogan "For Recreation Read The Best" is, in spite of its being...
There will be many who look upon the barren results of the CRIMSON's Eating Ballot as a substantiation of the well worn axiom that one may lead a horse to water but one cannot make him drink. Certainly there is opportunity for the analogy, in spite of the fact that the project concerned men and food instead of horses and liquid refreshments. One hundred and eighty five signatures are adequate proof that, whatever be the cause, a university dining hall with club tables is not the present be-all and the end-all of the student appetite...
...London. More than 100,000 people were waiting for Captain Lindbergh at the Croydon Aerodrome. They broke down police barriers, swarmed on the landing-field as soon as his plane was sighted. He swooped down looking for barren ground, saw none, returned skyward. On the second attempt, his plane touched ground, but was forced to rise again because hero-worshipers insisted on dogging his path. His third attempt was rewarded with a clear field. Before he could climb out of his plane, the sea of the mob surrounded him-bowling over women, leaving the official reception committee stranded...
...after all, more than a machine. Too often the platform lecturer is led to believe that his listeners are entirely devoid of humanistic attributes. Therefore whatever can be done to demonstrate that good instruction is appreciated and that a year of talking to impassive faces has not been a barren year is not unwelcome. As in a theatre, the noise of an applauding audience means nothing in itself and occasionally disturbs, but nevertheless it is received as a token of estimation: these concluding ceremonies, unlike many other undergraduate vociferation, have their place...
...first surrounded the deposit of so large an amount of china in the center of the Yard was largely dissipated last night by the discovery that previous to the construction of Appleton Chapel and the old Gore Half Library all of the Yard cast of University Hall was a barren waste. The part immediately behind University I was evidently used as a dump heap which accounts for the presence of the broken cups and plates there...