Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football for three years, are teaching a class in tumbling, a subject in which a football man ought to be proficient. Several men are coaching basketball teams, others are teaching drumming, telegraphy, boxing, and wrestling, and still others Sunday School classes. Several men are reading to a blind student in the University and two men are reading to groups of blind workingmen in Cambridge. Men who can entertain are sent out in troupes to settlement houses and hospitals. Several of these entertainment's have been given this year, among them two for wounded soldiers. The fall collection of clothing...
...relevant only in so far as it affected this problem. Many people felt, however, that the Conference was really called to end war and establish universal peace, and nothing which the President has said has been able to discourage this idea. The explanation of this attitude is twofold; first, blind sentimentalism; and second, the realization that the Conference must of necessity go farther than its specified limits. For it is obvious that naval reduction is not of itself sufficient to preserve international harmony, because...
...course for the training of teachers of the blind and workers with the blind, which was given last year by the Graduate School of Education as the first course of its kind ever given by an American university, is being given again this year because of its great success last season. The lectures in the course are accompanied by demonstrations and practical exercises for teachers of the blind and semi-sighted and workers with the adult blind. In conducting this course the Educational School is cooperating with the Massachusetts Department of Education, Division of the Blind, and the Perkins Institution...
...store called "The Arrow-head" proceeds clearly and cleverly until the denouement is reached; then the mode of treatment is suddenly changed, and the final situation is suggested so dimly that the result is an anti-climax. The some difficulty appears in a less degree in "The Walloping Window Blind". In characterization, narrative skill, and vivacity of style, it is distinctly the best tale in this number of the Advocate; but at the very end Mr. LaFarge, evidently somewhat vitiated by the literary tendencies of the day, wrongly believes that he gains in impressiveness by obscurely hinting at the concluding...
...fanciful invention, is well-high lost in the atmosphere. The sentiment of the verses headed "Amnesia" is poetic and apparently sincere, the technical frame-work is successful; but here the impression is impaired by a too highly colored wordiness. The setting is best managed in "The Walloping Window Blind", with admirable restraint and with something of Conrad's feeling for the terror of remote seas. One of the least objectionable modes of getting atmosphere would be the resort to dialect, if it were not now so much over-worked. The trick justifies itself, however, in the four pieces of fiction...