Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Exeter which defeated Yale 13-7. However the Yale Fresh can boast of a victory over the Princeton Freshmen, and another victory over Andover which defeated the Harvard Fresh 7-0. The teams are nearly equal in weight, although Yale's line may outweigh ours a slight bit...
...attitude of University Hall toward the matter is demonstrated by the decision last year to exempt Senior honors candidates at the discretion of course leaders. A slight push by the Student Council might well send the April hours into oblivion, and administer a suitable coup de grace to a bit of red tape outgrown with the introduction of the concentration plan...
...education, just so long, will youth be educated in "convenient half-truth." The origin of the present conviction that these things need restatement rests in the eloquent Phi Beta Kappa speech delivered last spring by Mr. Wilbur C. Cross of Connecticut. I may be mistaken, but that highly-touted bit of oratory, written by one who has been called in enlightened public servant and uttered before presumptive students, had all the carmarks of political device. Mr. Cross was content to run the customary Deweyan gamut, and to garnish his loopholes with a fine show of classicism...
...Miss Sullavan shows herself a capable mime. She has a certain un-Holly-woodian freshness about her, a spontaneity found all too seldom in screen stars. She delivers her lines with sparkling zest, and can look and without looking stupid. Only on the deathbed scene does she become a bit wearying. Her face is just pretty--not beautiful, but attractive. her figure is, of course, flawless, and she wears clothes as they should be worn. The stars are well backed up by Billie Burke and Reginald Denny, who put on a bit of pleasant comedy to alleviate the pressure...
...presence on Saturday, the Army Cadets scattered in all directions. Some went to eat; others became conspicuous in their grey-blue bathrobe effects at a drafty corner of Memorial Hall where they listened to a picked handful of Union Square athletes. But many climbed up into Widener for a bit of sightseeing. The turnstile area was soon clogged with cadets. Partly from curiosity and partly from necessity about a dozen stepped gingerly into the Farnsworth Room. To their complete astonishment, a scholarly young man sitting at the desk, whose face was deeply buried in a large book, clicked his little...