Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sproul, who is such a mind himself, is too reticent about striking a sufficiently salient blow for his cause. There is need for more dreaming in the American university. The progress of body, of mind is stressed too much,--the advance of fancy too little. When the wise men of his time asked Pythagoras his chief delights, he named children and stars. Most university dwellers forget the former while they hitch modernized wagons to the latter. They cannot trifle with dreams...
...Thanksgiving, unless one is a mental hermit. The thousands of universities and colleges between the two oceans put forth elevens that range the country fighting for national recognition. The papers play up their prowess. Individual players, little colleges, pop into the limelight overnight. And over all and through all blow the tart autumn breezes, whipping up the flames in the follage, and in the girls cheeks, and filling the heart of man with a desire for heroism. To go to college and play football has the same attraction now for the boys of this country that Hollywood...
France had been intending to convene her Parliament on Oct. 6. It was hoped that before Oct. 6: 1) M. Briand could negotiate the Security Pact; 2) M. Caillaux might properly negotiate a debt settlement with the U. S.; 3) Maréchal Petain would plant a decisive blow in Abd-el-Krim's midRiff. Now France is less sanguine of the immediate success of her three champions. The Government has postponed the opening of Parliament until...
...blow to the early-season University machine which the coaching staff have been building up is the loss of J. J. Maher '26, who came out of Wednesday afternoon practice with an injured leg. Maher is a veteran backfield man with two years of University experience and considered one of the mainstays of the 1925 outfit. His disability, which will probably keep him off the field for three weeks or a month, will mean that a new adjustment in the backfield will be necessary at least for the first two games of the season...
...Mary (Williamsburg, Va.) upon the society's 150th anniversary; upon the sensible resolution they had passed that morning, at the instance of Brother W. O. Stevens (Colby College) put- ting themselves on record "as insisting on academic freedom that is essential to the pursuit of truth" (a direct blow at foes of evolution...