Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will have avoided the aimless and meaningless college years which are the real waste--a waste of mind and spirit, as well as time, for many students. There is much talk now of the desirability of sending boys to college earlier, but I have found that some of the best students are those who have spent some time 'knocking about' in the world after leaving preparatory school...
...School, has just been announced as the recipient for this year of the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall '94 prize. The prize, which carries with it a stipend of $250, was established in 1926, and is awarded annually by the deans of Harvard College and the Law School to the best-fitted Senior in Harvard College proposing to enter the Harvard Law School...
...capable persons not members of the University. This chorus will meet on Wednesday and will be directed by Dr. Davison and by students in the course. It will provide practice in conducting for the students in the course and will offer all its members study and enjoyment of the best choral music. The chorus will meet for the first time on next Wednesday evening in Lawrence Hall on Kirkland Street...
...music can be called at best no more than fair. There are no outstanding numbers and no startling presentations of what there are. The cast is alright; it may even be the same as that which played in New York as far as we can remember, (though of course the costumes are a little dirtier by this time). But all of this just goes to prove that the important thing about it all is the unimportance of minor details like these. The Marx brothers are distinctly the show, and by all means see them now for they...
...there is no doubt. That he was paid to do just that thing, the corporations which gave him the money are endeavoring to disprove. The situation is disagreeable to every one except, perhaps, Mr. Shearer, who appears to derive the pleasures of life in what must be termed at best, unusual ways...