Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sanskrit, chemistry, trigonometry, biology, or psychology? A football player would be almost equally at sea if he had no idea of the type of game which his opponent would play, for the possibilities are as varied as the branches of scholastic learning, or would be if every coaching camp carried the possible variations of the game through to their extreme limits...
Whether the College is justified in actually including the so-called outside activities in its curriculum raises, however, grave questions of administration. The only real difficulty presented by the present separation of the two fields is the lack of sympathy sometimes displayed by the extreme supporters of each camp. But, here at Harvard at least, it is only the extreme academist who willfully penalizes his students because they value the sort of development to be found on the athletic field or the College musical clubs. And conversely, the undergraduate managers of extra curricular activities are usually more pleased than otherwise...
...different. Although the Yale game is the ultimate objective of the Crimson board of strategy the melee this Saturday is coming in for its show of attention. Holy Cross has assembled one of its strongest teams in years and promises to throw quite a scare into the Harvard camp...
...tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest. By few white men's eyes have these curious creatures ever been seen. Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Johnson, famed intrepid jungleers, set off last week from Manhattan with eight motor cars, many tons of camp & photographic supplies, two batteries of sound-cinema equipment, two dozen automatic cameras, cinema cameras so that U. S. movie audiences may buzz with wonder at the sound and sight of the Congo's animal wonders...
...barmaid named Minnie is heroine of the David Belasco play which Puccini adapted. She keeps a saloon in a California mining camp, reads the Bible to drunkards, guards their money. Among them is Sheriff Jack Rance. He loves her, but Minnie, by the end of the first act, prefers Dick Johnson, outlaw in disguise. Rance obtains proof that Johnson is the bandit Ramarrez and tells Minnie. The big scene occurs when she confronts Johnson with her knowledge and drives him out into the storm. He is wounded just outside the door and she drags him in again and hides...