Word: dinfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boylston Prize, the second prize of the evening consists of three awards, the first, of $50 being given to Herbert Lombard Ellison '28, of Brighton for his redition of Rudyard Kipling's "Gunga Din." The second Boylston' "Speech at the Burial of John Brown." The third prize, also of $35 was given to James Randall Creel '27 for his selection "The Valiant," by Holworthy Hall and Robert Mr. Middlemas...
...raising of the curtain was the signal for more noise from the young bloods who represented Harvard University. A chorus of yells greeted the performers, and for some minutes nothing could be heard above the din...
President Mason of Chicago deplored "rote learning". Dr. Penniman of Pennsylvania insisted that "education must be dynamic"; while the Illinois President, Dr. Kinley, deprecated "educational din...
Contemplation is not a term of mere thoughtfulness. It connotes opportunity to watch undisturbed and to reason with care. In college education, it holds the added significance of wide speculation inducing as sound general conclusions on existence as a term of four years will permit. Din, educational or otherwise, is not consonant with formal education. The student is somewhat in the position of a diver gauging the spring of the board and the depth of the pool. It is hardly prudent to push him in before he has some idea of how far he will be thrown and how deep...
This time, however, the Prince fidgeted and blushed with good reason. By way of compliment to his Argentine hearers, he "carefully pronounced" numerous Spanish words and phrases. Delighted, the guests cheered with a hearty acclaim which drowned most of what he said. Over the din one diner thought that he caught the words: "It seems a long way from Calle Florida to the Strand. . . .* But there is so much in common between Britons and Argentines that their friendship and understanding will indefinitely prolong the century of peace between...