Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chance to concentrate, in their upper-class years, on their chosen subjects, and thus to carry away with them from college something more than a smattering of many things. We know of no more important or progressive movement in college circles today. It will cost the universities a bright new penny or two to put these new ideas into operation. But if the results justify the expense of larger teaching staffs so as to do this individual teaching, and higher salaries so as to get the best men to do it, no one will complain about that. The cost will...
High, high above the streaming, teaming asphalt, at least 18 inches above the ground, now stands the officer of the day. On all four sides of him are bright, white canvas sides. On one of these are emblazoned the magic words testifying to the powers which sanctioned the construction of the imposing edifice--"Cambridge Police", no less...
Tennyson certainly did not mean to exclude even a young Vagabond when he wrote his famous lines reminiscent of a certain curve in the Charles River Parkway, the bright lights of Revere Beach, and soft moons seen from the rumble seats of innumerable roadsters. Having recklessly indulged in his first ice cream cone of the year and permitted himself to be driven around the Wellesley campus the sage frequenter of musty lecture rooms has experienced an emancipation of his "physical amativeness" which will enable him to arise promptly with the twitterings of his alarm clock, breast the tempestuous waves...
...Simbirsk the wife of a school principal gave birth to Alexander Feodorovich Kerensky, a pale, sickly, bright-eyed child...
Automobiles had become a troublesome problem in Princeton, as elsewhere. Five undergraduate deaths, the poor scholastic standing of 200 student automobile owners and the threat to Princeton's traditional seclusion latent in roadsters capable of reaching bright-lit cities in two hours of the day or night, moved Dean Christian Gauss to ask the senior council to pass a prohibitive ruling. He asked twice. The council took no action. It had passed a rule last spring requiring parental permission for student motors. Cars were not allowed to enter the campus. The council believed that was sufficient prohibition. Dean Gauss...