Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the race tomorrow afternoon or at least by the end of the week. Coach Browns intends either to drop four men from the A squad and bring four others up, keeping three crews until spring vacation, or else to drop an entire eight...
White Flannels (Louise Dresser). Mother Politz insists that her boy Frank keep his pants clean and go to college. She insists that he drop his puppy love affair with his coal-mining-town sweetheart; that he be a football hero; that he evade the college vampire. When he seems to fail in her ambitions, Louise Dresser screws up her face marvelously and weeps colloquially. When he comes from a coal mine rescue in his white flannels and fondles his original sweetheart, his mother beams. Production is an evangelical hymn played on a portable melodeon-staccato...
...blue-black giant, April, the foreman and patriarch of the settlement. Such story as there is culminates in the tribulation visited upon him by a God in whom he took small stock. Gangrene eats away the feet upon which he so confidently stood all his life. His toes drop right off in a basin. Some say it was the conjure wrought by one of his many women when she laid his wife's death sheet over his bed. Some say it was his curse for biting a hole in a preacher's cheek. Most likely...
...teaching nothing useful, and so by its presence in a society disposed to measure everything by material standards becomes a factor of extremest use" is the most vital and worthwhile element in American higher education. To him the growth of the Junior College will cause the college to drop its first two years, add two more at the upper end and gradually but inevitably transform itself into a professional school. He sees this process already going on at Johns Hopkins and at Stanford. He is alarmed for the passing from American life of what he aptly calls "our scholarly amateur...
...Junior College is necessary. Giving a two-year course and an A. A. degree it should be a unit in itself and not merely a step toward a professionalized college. Into it would flow that lower third in private colleges and that lower half in state colleges who usually drop out after the first two years anyway under the present system and who are adapted to further general education beyond high school but who are not as assailable in the four year arts college...