Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over 300 athletes, representing over 25 schools, promises well for the thirty-ninth annual Harvard Interscholastic Track Meet. Several teams from distant schools arrived last night, but all will assemble together for the first time at an 11.30 o'clock lunch in the Smith Halls Dining Room today. Between lunch and the meet, which starts at 2.30 o'clock at Soldiers Field, the competitors will be in the Smith Halls Common Room to meet undergraduates in college who attended the various schools represented...
...broken spirited, in spite of it all. A mere up-start who wins his way to the proud title of duke pays for his vanity o ver thirteen thousand dollars, so that the belted earl whose coronet has come down from father to son through dim and distant generations can comfort himself with the reflection that the ambitious climber is charged a pretty penny for his purple. In fact so steep is the price that many honest laboring men find it more advantageous to refuse glittering but costly honors, and remain unadorned but wealthy members of the common herd...
Over a score of letters have been received by Simmons from radio fans complimenting the band on the concert which was broadcasted from Station WNAC of Shepard Stores on March 12. The most distant message came from Michigan...
With the Boston University game only a week distant, and the Southern trip a fortnight off, Coach Slattery will have his hands full to get the team into shape. Starting on Monday, all the institutions of mid-season will be used, the squad will be cut down to a size that will permit of more careful and individual instruction, and practice games with regular scores will be begun...
...distant past an intercollegiate debate usually consisted of a series of well-drilled flights of oratory, the object of which was to dodge adroitly an ever shifting "burden of proof". The far-flung reputation of Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech undoubtedly impressed schoolboy orators with the desirability of mastering this style; but it has made the task of training a college team to speak simply and directly vastly more difficult. It is recorded that one of the recent coaches of University debaters made persistently eloquent candidates speak in trial debates with a waste paper basket under each arm. Less...