Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fourth production of the 47 Workshop will be given in Agassiz House Theatre, Radcliffe, this evening at 8 o'clock. The play the first two nights will be "The Waves of Torre," a one-act piece by Miss Ethel Claire Randall, telling of an Irish fisherman's dread of the sea, the terror being lost, however, when he is called to the aid of a wrecked ship. The scene is the interior of Bhride Senanes cottage on the Island of Torre off the northwest coast of Donegal, Ireland...
...College ways that speculation in Harvard football tickets is a crime against Harvard College. Moreover, it is a crime that under the new scheme of allotment is almost certain to be discovered. This may not mean a great deal to a new student who has not learned the dread of the blacklist; and it probably means less than nothing to a man who can see a few immediate dollars farther than he can his own honor and future pleasure. But we venture to say that to almost every Senior the crime of speculation begets a penalty awful enough to keep...
...menace to law and order, and his chief, the redoubtable Ohdearno, lends dignity and solidity to the desperate undertaking. And then there is Anita, incarnation of sinuous wickedness and unscrupulous grace -- alluring, exotic, venomous. You can imagine what trouble she makes. Even in the face of death and its dread alternative, matrimony, our friends find heart for song and dancing, yet the story bravely progresses towards its climax, with real sparks crackling from the wireless machine. All the characters turn up, and even the red-headed office-boy performs heroic deeds. The real thriller, of course, is the rescue...
...Reserve, and of educated men in the service in order that there may be competent men prepared to act as officers in the Reserve in case of war. College men now generally shun both the army and navy, even when they have a longing for military experience, because they dread a four-year term. The need of a special short term of enlistment for college men was pointed out by Major General Leonard Wood in his lecture on the army in the Union on November 7 last. General Wood showed that at present for the army alone we could muster...
...chiefly occupied in discovering new facts? Do we not desire above all "efficiency" teachers, even though they can only impart traditional knowledge? Who doubts that the best way to expand the intellects of students is by supervising rigidly their daily work, and by keeping them constantly in dread of quizzes and examinations? It is certainly very odd of Professor Eucken to think that students can expand their own intellects, and that "they derive a real advantage only from work which is carried on with pleasure and with love solely for its own sake?" Exchange professors happily teach us this, besides...