Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Auslander's work from his undergraduate days know that poetry has been to him from the first a sustaining power. Instinctively he has absorbed it and made it a part of himself; instinctively he turns to it for self-expression. His early poems show that "the numbers came". In blank verse his master was Milton; and he was an apter pupil than many; in light metres he could produce such a lovely little quatrain...
...among a score of other forces working to the same end, are apparently effecting their purpose with a slow but steady persistence. The idea of a convict being a mental invalid and of a prison being properly a remedial hospital for his cure which would have aroused nothing but blank amazement in the minds of Judge Jeffrey's and his contemporaries, is accepted at the present day by most people with only momentary qualms. Teaching a man a trade and allowing him to work for a living while under confinement is a much better way of moulding his future reactions...
With tomorrow a blank date on the Freshman track schedule, more than usual importance will be attached to the spring interdormitory meet on the Freshman track at 4 o'clock this afternoon...
Over 4000 pennies were contributed by the Freshmen, other gifts including Canadian and Italian coins, blank checks, cough drops, cigarettes, a pair of dice, an empty cartridge, and one peppermint Life-Saver...
...Germany today, therefore, with the past shattered, the present tottering and the future unbelievably blank, the provocation to study, to gain power and information for reconstructing the badly-shaken fibres of the native land must be great. And that the youth of Germany are responding so enthusiastically is certainly the best guarantee of the German future. Meanwhile in America, a perfectly definite future, with few uncertainties other than the usual vicissitudes of business lends little to inspire the undergraduate to unusual efforts or to increased curiosity...