Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is like strong medicine, helpful and effective; but dangerous if swallowed blindly without careful reading of the instructions. The ideal college man of these analyses is a man of clay, moulded by heredity and environment. Of necessity he is a type, not an individual, and he has no actions or reactions of his own towards anything. The conclusions arrived at by this line of reasoning are intentionally general. When applied personally they open pleasing vistas for those inclined to the "God fights on the side of the heaviest artillery" school of philosophy. It is dangerously easy for the small...
These improvements are peculiarly expensive due to the nature of the ground. It will be necessary to lay draining tile in several feet of cinders surmounted by a heavy layer of dirt and clay before the ground will be in shape...
...best-as it is the first-of the Harvard prize plays. It is a sombre piece; there is scarcely a laugh in it. It has none of the sparkle of "Believe Me, Xantippe", nor the comedy shadings of "Mamma's Affair". Nor it is a thesis play like "Common Clay". There is behind it no idea, no criticism, no "slant" on Life such as we are accustomed to look for in the "serious" plays of today. It is simply a story, a powerful, unembroidered study of three characters who find themselves in a difficult and potenially tragic situation. A nerve...
...college men are doing in Labrador, by changing these lives by example, helps to make all the difference in the world. I have seen the proof of this, while they have been unloading coal vessels--a tough job, or digging foundations in a boulder bank glued together by heavy clay, or blasting out a water supply through granite rocks almost under water all the time, or firing in the tiny engine room of a hospital steamer with dusty coal, or cutting down trees and hauling them for firing, or getting peat from a fly-beset bog, or digging roads. They...
...instructing them on the principles of inboard work on the machines. Yesterday there was work on the tank for only a few of the Freshmen, but running was prescribed for all. Among the men coaching were G. M. Appleton '22, stroke of last year's University crew; Walter-Amory, Clay Hollister, A. S. Hobson, Parker Hamilton, and B. H. Burnham, of the 1924 yearling crew, and C. K. Cummings Jr. '23, R. F. Bradford '23, and S. M. Duncan '22, of the second University crew...