Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Club has and spent three months instead of six or seven weeks on a production, it might rank above the ordinary run of college dramatic clubs. It has already achieved marked attention on account of its ambitious programs. All it needs is enough support to take it to more distant fields. And it has the added advantage of being a common rallying point for all undergraduates. This the Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta could and should never be. WILLIAM E. HARRIS...
...tendencies of modern poetry. Mr. Markham was optimistic. "The tendencies are all away form the pure fantastic and unreal in romanticism to what is vivid and vital in the common human life around us. The poets are taking deeper hold upon reality. Old romantic poets went to the distant and dead to find their strange beauty, but the new find a strange beauty and a tragic terror in the familiar lives of men and women in our workaday world. This might be called strong tendencies towards the democratic in literature. So strong is this tendency that I doubt whether...
...seem a far cry from March to October and the subject of "Football" would be somewhat inopportune unless Spring practice were on the list at a much less distant date. Those who have played football, and especially since arriving in Cambridge, are very largely familiar with the various aspects of the game. Even they, however, may not fully appreciate the many advantages which work with the football squad places at their disposal...
...sense of the word, with a touch of old world courtliness about him. You somehow felt in his presence that here was a scholar who was welcomed at the Sorbonne, at Oxford and Cambridge, whose writings had brought him friends and honor, and honor, too, to his University, in distant lands: who knew the literati of the world and was their peer...
...Sophomore and Junior years the dreaded "Divisionals" are so far distant that it is difficult for the ordinary student to take a very active interest in his tutorial reading, which, at best, is only a very indirect preparation for the examinations. The Senior, however, is anxious to do some thorough work, but is prevented from accomplishing much by lack of time. The most effective tutorial method for Seniors which is now used by at least one member of the Department of Economics, is to hold two "group" or individual conferences a week, one hour on the "general" and one hour...