Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News that the University of Oregon is contemplating adoption of the Honors Course emphasizes once again the rapidity with which this modification of the tutorial system is spreading throughout the colleges of the United States. That the essential spirit behind this important development in educational methods remains the same whether at Harvard, at Swarthmore, at Wisconsin, or at Oregon is true, but there are certain phases in its advance which merit serious question...
...another, and it is probably that the opinions of the men in regard to the respective abilities of the various strokes will figure in Coach Brown's final choice. The timing and rhythm so essential to a stroke oar may be judged by the men who are rowing behind him as well as by the coach, according to Coach Brown...
...plot there is none. Mozart comes, arriving before two audiences well prepared for him, one before the footlights, one behind. Mozart goes, leaving behind him two audiences, both baffled. This youth of scarcely a score succeeds in three short acts in turning the heads of at least four women, and on the eve of his return to Salzbourg in dropping the apple of discord among them. One he loved. But whom...
Nevertheless, the theme is not satisfied. It treats of the emotions behind all the mannerisms; and in most cases it falls short of adequate treatment. Most of all, however, the lack of structure and background detracts from the effect. Of Westlake, during the twenty years of the heroine's life that the book covers (the second twenty), the reader learns little more than that it suffers the characters to exist within its confines. Of the progress of the story, there is never any forecast but the evident succession of the years, At scattered intervals during these years, the author drops...
Karl Lindmuth, the surprise of the evening, led the Crimson heavyweight by a full yard when the broke the tape. Behind Miller came McAllister, the "flying cop", and other sprinters whom Miller has repeatedly outrun this season. The distance was covered in 6 3-5 seconds...