Word: crawley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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STUDIES OF SAVAGES AND SEX-Ernest Crawley-Button-($4.50). Although this is primarily a scholarly book, it contains points such as the following for man-in-the-street's consideration: "The attaching of a market-value to a woman has tended to raise the standard of female chastity." "There is no doubt that the various forms of love-sexual, parental, paternal, filial, and social-are kindred emotions." "Other things being equal, the savage regards the satisfaction of the sexual instinct exactly as he regards the satisfaction of hunger and thirst." In giving psychological data on chastity, kissing, love, obscenity...
...history of Crawley, a small village near Winchester in southwest England is being studied from the year 643 to the present time by N. S. B. Gras '12, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History who was recently given one of the Milton Awards...
...history of Crawley is extremely interesting from many standpoints," Professor Gras explained yesterday. "One can trace its economic and social life through centuries. I have photostats of records gathered from strong boxes of peasants, in the city hall, and in London of the exact activities of the hamlet since the year 1208. These unbroken records are very seldom found of English villages. In my study I want to emphasize, however, not only the remote past but its present condition...
...preserve "the best that has been thought and said." But in 1879, Morton College is founded. By 1920, it has grown so that state appropriations are needed for further expansion. Senator Lewis advises the College president, descendant of the founder, to muffle the voice of radical Professor Holden (Sayre Crawley) if he expects government aid. This is done, but the president cannot throttle Madeline (Josephine Hutchinson), granddaughter of the founder, who insists that conscientious objectors ought not to be gaoled and that she has a right to say so, on Morton Hill especially. Deserted by her influential relatives, the girl...
Tight pitching by Captain Woodruff of Amherst and Crawley of Springfield has reduced the batting average of the University squad during the period since the Bowdoin game. At that time, the Crimson stick-men were meeting the ball for an average of .267, but the light hitting that has featured the last two encounters has reduced this figure to .250, or one bingle for each four journeys to the plate...