Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage offering, more tuneful and delightful than usual, has as its bright spot two acrobat-comedians who do a neat bit jumping back and forth on a rubber net. Their act is carried out with minute precision and is quite different from the ordinary acrobatic stunt. Arthur Martel offers his weekly organ solo, this time in the form of a musical boxing bout between the husbands and wives present and the concert orchestra contributes a dashing rendering of the "Rhapsody in Black and White". All in all the program is a well-balanced entertainment sure to please some...
...coached the University Polo team. Last year Harvard won all the games in both the Boston League and in her other indoor games, which led up to the Intercollegiate Championship in Indoor Polo and to the finals of the Class A tournament. This year, however, prospects are not very bright, as several men are in college are ineligible at present...
...comparatively bright outlook faces the University wrestling team. There is good material in all classes, and Coach Clifford Gallagher is rapidly rounding the squad into shape. The first meet is to be with M. I. T. on January...
Three afternoons a week is the minimum time allowance for Chemistry 22, and those of us who aren't so bright usually spend four. But it is one of the most interesting laboratory courses open to the undergraduates, and if one is at all fascinated with the complexities of organic chemistry it should prove a very worth while course. It is fully as interesting as Chemistry 2 is dull, because here you are dealing with the things themselves, and pot merely with their names...
...Watkins has been observing conditions in the coal industry in the Illinois and West Virginia fields. He described the miserable circumstances which surround the lives of some of the miners in West Virginia as disgraceful to the United States. He presented, however, a bright picture of the alleviating influence exerted on the miners by what he termed "family paternalism" on the part of some operators. He protested against the prevalent belief that all American laborers possess automobiles radios, and all modern conveniences. He remarked that in the course of his survey he had found localities where men and women were...