Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Rowing is the most popular spring sport in the University. With a class regatta on Thursday deep interest has developed among the contending eights. But it has been the dim prospects of a meeting with a Yale shell that has served to put the increased vitality into the work at the boat house. It is only just that such endeavor should be rewarded, if financially it is possible...
...verse is wrought carefully, studiously. If he were a violinist I should say of him that he doesn't pull a good long bow; he doesn't lift you on the line -- end -- stopped or run-on "The Other Man's Wife" is simpler than "The City of Dim Faces," and gains by its simplicity. The latter is, in form and substance, as hard to take up as mercury...
From that dim age when the gay college boys observed the day of rest in a three-hour sermon, a longer dinner, and the remainder of the time in reading Numbers, recreation on Sunday has been in the moral eyes of the righteous the next thing to uncleanliness, and far worse than fratricide. Unending generations of college men have striven for ways whereby the boathouses, the tennis courts, and the athletic fields might be opened. And for all their striving, there is perhaps as much relaxation around Harvard Square on the Sabbath as there was in the time of John...
Surely 1918, which has shown itself so unified before, will not fall now. That one event which is peculiarly of the class must be successful. It must set a standard for youthful 1919 and 1920, and dim, unborn classes to follow...
...plucked white flowers out of weed and thorn. We mourn, yet know that in a rarer clime He dwells with sages and with seraphim Free from the fetters and the weight of clay And from the passions of a gloomy time-- And we shall never let the flame grow dim That he has lit, a beacon on our way. MARGARETE MUENSTERBERG. The Nation...