Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finals of the track events, Meredith was entered in both the 440 and the 880 yard events. In the quarter mile run the Red and Blue leader overhauled an early lead by Westmore Willcox Jr. '17, to burn up the track for a new world's record of 47.4 seconds...
Perhaps now others will follow the example of Europe's richest man, and burn their diaries. How well for the Old World if they do. . . . MARY ELIZABETH ROBINN...
Today we have the Game, that light which hides at times under the bushel of events, only to burn with undimmed lustre when the last man, woman, and child is drawn to Stadium or Bowl. A game, by all the word implies, includes elements of chance and presupposes the desire to win. Games are played to the won, which has nothing at all to do with the effect of victory or defeat. After the game the competition is over, and the content for superiority, not the goal, is its reward. Over a long period of years Harvard and Yale have...
...here is another one of those frequent cases when Burn's famous works about the plans of mice and men holds true. Some will of course say that the Vagabond has been restricting himself solely to intellectual pursuits to ward off the wrath of those whose thunder bolts are so prone to descend upon the poor benighted during the dreary hours of November examinations. That, indeed, is not the case-and with a weekend directly upon us need anyone be important and enquire further...
...theatres of the day or from the author's own invention. Praised by many critics, it caused Frank Sullivan, playboy of the New York World, to join the old, outmoded, bedroom school of literary criticism in his admission that the book had caused his boudoir reading lamp to burn long and late. Perhaps an extravagance, a lack of grace in critical compliments implies a lack of capability in the critic, but in this case the grotesque writhing of reviewers is only in one sense unnatural. Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne thoroughly deserves the applause, if not the applesauce, which has been heaped...