Word: copings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell, in his last report, attributed the relative inferiority of American universities to the difficulty of having to cope with the mental immaturity of incoming freshmen. For this condition, the secondary schools are chiefly responsible. Faced by the specter of the College Entrance Board examinations, they are inclined to make success in them the standard of achievement. The successful high or preparatory school teacher is the one who can bring the largest percentage of his pupils safely by the examiners' perils. And since surmounting these is within the reach of almost all, secondary instruction jogs along in peaceful mediocrity...
...University Squash Courts when he defeated H. N. Rawlins '27 18 to 13, 11 to 15, 15 to 8, and 15 to 9 in the semi-finals of the University Squash Tournament. Rawlins, last year's University champion, played a clever game, but he was unable to cope with Wright's smashing drives. The winner's superior strength began to tell in the third and fourth games which he won with comparative ease...
Hodge blunders through his part, in a manner so highly normal and idiotic that one comes to forget sooner or later that he is acting at all. Truth to tell, it is as if you and I were up there on the stage, trying desperately to cope with a lot of things which we do not understand. And so, sooner or later, Mr. Hodge obtains our sympathy, and our interest as well. We must acknowledge his powers of persuasion whether they be those of an actor or a demi...
...politicians and business men and especially landlords and proprietors in the East. All of these sources have more or less identical attitudes in politics. In the midst of the difficult economical problems with which Germany has been confronted throughout the past year, and which the Nationalists were powerless to cope with, there has now arisen a fairly general demand for a "strong man" whom it is hoped might be able to stop the downward movement, the increase in bankruptcies and unemployment...
...provided with masks, which they clap on and whisk off as their personalities exchange ascendancy. Productive of a wide gamut of emotions and effective for about half of the 13 scenes, this trickery becomes a dizzying harlequinade at the last. Leona Hogarth (Margaret) and William Harrigan (Billy Brown) cope very successfully with their strenuous parts, both masked and unmasked. Anne Shoemaker is bravely understanding in the all but unstageable mask of Cybel, prostitute and symbol of Earth...