Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than on the arbitrary requirements which the University might set up and with which he could not comply. . . . The plan has worked out well, and each year sees a more thoroughly national representation among the Freshman Class and an increasing attendance of desirable boys from the smaller or more distant schools. It is doubtless the same end which Harvard has in view, and there will be much interest in the success of her plan. Yale Alumni Weekly
...peasant stock, he was a delicate child whose bent for reading and things literary developed early. His mother, saving from her " milk money," managed to send him to school, where he proved neither a model boy nor a sissy, developed a passion for the theatre and had several timidly distant affairs of the heart, which never got beyond the dumbly adoring stage. When not yet 15, he, like Keats, became an apothecary's apprentice, but an injured knee forced him to give up the trade and he returned to school, and later went to the University of Königsberg. Meanwhile...
...front half of the audience, the volume orchestral tone comes in about the same ringing fullness that you get in a concert hall. In the first several rows you do not get the deafening ill-balance that you get in a similar position in an auditorium. The distant rumbling of street cars and elevated trains and the honking of automobile horns in the middle of quiet passages give interruptions that are not essentially unpleasant, but which raise a characteristic mood for the outdoor performance...
...meet, in which more than 325 athletes from approximately 35 schools will compete, will be contested in two classes, the first being composed of nine of the larger schools and the second consisting of about 25 of the smaller or more distant institutions. The events in today's meet are as follows: 100-yard and 220-yard dashes, quarter and half-mile runs, 120-yard hurdles, shot put, high and broad jumps, and eight relay races with three teams in each race...
...compete tomorrow have been divided into two groups, Class A and Class B. Nine of the larger high schools, Boston English and Latin, Brookline, Brockton, Lynn Classical and English, Medford, Newton, and Rindge, compose the former group, while under the second classification about 26 of the smaller or more distant schools have been placed...