Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene is usually some college club in the city--a big room full of smoke and graduates. At one end is a score-board and miniature gridiron, along which a colored counter is moved as the telegraph behind the board clicks off the plays hot from the real gridiron. There is also an announcer, who, by way of clarifying the message depicted on the board, reads the wrong telegram in a loud, clear tone...
...Eastern colleges, has no such customs. Many upper classmen and even freshmen regret it, while graduate students from other institutions maintain that Harvard undergraduates never experience what they commonly term "college life". The criticism is well founded; certainly that kind of college life is conspicuously absent; it runs counter to a fundamental principle of the University...
...counter reply might be that the student should have a speaking acquaintance with the world, at least, for it is that very world which he will have to meet, to work with, or perhaps against, when he leaves college. Unless he keeps in touch with pulse beats of the greater world beyond his own habitual sphere of activity, he can have no sound basis for the building of formulas to be applied outside...
...sixth in the series of public organ recitals for the season 1920-21 will be given in Appleton Chapel tomorrow afternoon, April 26, at 5 o'clock. The program will be presented by Mr. Arthur M. Phelps, Organist, assisted by Mr. Frank A. Bagdasarian, Counter-Tenor, of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston. Selections from Dvorak, Bach, Franck and Mendelssohn will make up the program...
...double that of the preceding year or of almost any other year in the history of the Library. At times the operation was somewhat of a gamble, owing to the violent fluctuations of exchange and to the efforts of the sellers, and more especially of the German government, to counter-balance unprofitable exchange by the imposition of special charges. In spite, however, of such uncertainties, the Library was able to make many purchases on terms favorable to itself and in several directions to add materially to its strength...