Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politics and public fashions of those days. The present book has a rather more restricted field than any of these, and yet is of them, for it treats of the days when New England was admittedly the cultural balance wheel of the nation, when her colleges were, by common consent, deemed the fittest heirs of old world learnedness and worthy, by virtue of this, to new world respect...
...despite these things, there are no such enigmas as scouting problems Contests which draw huge crowds come, not every weekend, but at long intervals like festivals and vacations. They are occasions, not common occurances. Paid coaches, likewise, are rather the exception than the rule. Even a paid coach works largely through the team captain. The captain, being an undergraduate and to other things, only a peer of his subordinates on the team is a much less despotic ruler than the average coach. Where coaches are not paid, those of college teams and sometimes those of university teams also they...
...complete as it is desultory. The sky is often blue it is June, the grass green, and the elms with full foliage fill the eye; but men in shirt sleeves, unabashed, stretch dreary socket cords from tree to tree and other men assemble, more or less slowly, the lowest common denominators of Class Day fountains and bandstands. Heranlean pounding from behind venerable Sever provokes cases of shaking palsy among pigeons and sparrows. Altogether, the atmosphere is neither collegiate nor festive. The former was of yesterday, the latter is of tomorrow...
Other "first" section porters are Matthew Pearson, Charles A. Henry, Felix Caldwell and tall, light-colored Hunter Newson. All respect Mr. Warner as their chief, even in the matter of billiards, which is their common pastime off duty. None of "the men he runs with" (i. e. Century colleagues) can match Mr. Warner for calmness and accuracy with a cue. His record billiard...
Writing, or what is now called writing, is still of course in common use, but the modern tendency seems to be for everyone to ignore the recognized signs which represent the alphabet and to develop a species of short hand, intelligible only to themselves. This is only too evident in present day business life, where practically all correspondence is typewritten. Business men realize the difficulty of interpretting letters written in ordinary long hand, and they save themselves trouble by arranging their transactions through the medium of a typewriter...