Word: braved
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Boston Stock Company does not portray theatre country-folk; but goes deeper and gives a sketch of typical country life. In fact, one is not once reminded of the slapstick country rube nor is the comic hired man nor the old skinflint, foiled by the gallantry of the brave hero, dragged painfully into the scenes. The plot, though simple and unimportant, is made interesting by the capable acting of the cast...
...patients to whom the pill has already been administered and who are "doing nicely, thank you". The place of respect which the chapel holds, and the continuing good scholarship of those once on the "Dean's List" as well as Its incentive toward better work, are enough to brave the wisdom of the University's liberalism. We are inclined to wonder with the Yale "News", if "perhaps Yale's authorities delight in cobwebs", since the faculty hesitates so long before dusting out these corners...
...reason; -- the attentive Boswell for once disagreed with his master's defense of the play, and declared "the gaiety and heroines of a highwayman very captivating to a youthful imagination", and a temptation which "it requires a cool and strong judgment to resist". Boswell was not alone in his brave opposition; no loss a figure than Edmund Burke "thought the literary merit of "The Beggar's Opera' small and its social effect injurious...
...true that the College has advanced far from the old corduroy- trouser-dirty-sweatshirt days much of the old indifference to matters not essentially material remains; and it is against this that The Arts is forced to contend. It is to the lasting credit of the few brave souls who have kept up the fight in the past few years, even though discouragingly outnumbered, that The Arts is now, almost for the first time, showing promise of an untroubled health in the future. The number of tea-drinkers is increasing rapidly; and as we cannot believe that...
...generesity of Mr. and Mrs. George Alexander McKinlock of Chicago, a fourth Freshman Hall will be built in memory of their son, George Alexander McKinlock Jr. '16, a gallant officer who fell at Beray-le-Sec. on July 21, 1918. We are deeply grateful for this memorial to a brave soldier, which will be an inestimable boon to generations of future students living in the hall that bears his name...