Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working out for the first time of an experiment far-reaching in its implications which, should it prove successful, may stir some witnesses to emulation. Honors candidates studying under the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature will complete, by handing in a thesis and submitting to a brief oral examination, the program adopted last year by the Committee which released them from written divisional tests in their field after Junior year...
...since Ed Brown became the head coach in September of 1926. During the early season, while the men are in the tank or on the machines, the upperclass coxswains, by means of the Coxswains' School, will have an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of rowing as well as steering. Brief mention will be made of racing conditions and technique. Finally, there will be several talks on different types of boats, a thorough knowledge of which is essential to successful coxing under the present rowing regime. The School will have but seven or eight meetings and regular attendance will provide coxes...
...Subway. Six years ago able Playwright Elmer Rice (The Adding Machine, Street Scene) tried to peddle this play. Twice it went as far as the casting process. Never, until last week, was it produced, except for a brief presentation at the Cam bridge Festival Theatre in England. Many a worse play has been produced, but this is not another Street Scene, save in method. It is a cameractual dissertation on life in the metropolis. Sophie Smith (Jane Hamilton) doesn't mean to be bad, but she permits herself to be seduced by an artist. When she finds...
LADY HAIG will be most grateful if anyone POSSESSING LETTERS from her LATE HUSBAND or with PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE of INCIDENTS in his LIFE, particularly in his earlier years, which may contain matter of historical or personal interest, will send to her such letters or send her brief descriptive statements of such incidents. Communications should be addressed to her personally at Bemersyde, St. Boswells, Scotland. Letters and statements are required to furnish material for the official life of the Field-Marshal which will be written at some future time. All letters will be carefully preserved and copied and the originals returned...
...Herald is in this Prohibition fight to the finish. . . . The minds of America's younger generation need to be carried back to pre-Prohibition days to insure that they will understand the transformation which the Eighteenth Amendment has wrought." Editor High pays $5 to anyone who will write a brief authentic article revealing the degradation of drunkenness, the benison of Prohibition...