Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these same graduates are often the leaders in the widespread criticism of American Colleges, because the good old days of the Harvard pump and coal grates are passed. In a similar tone newspapers dwell on "the strange sumptuary regulations forbidding, not the keeping of dog or gun in a student's room, but the bringing of a student's automobile within the classic shades...
...close-up view from the side-lines. It was in this spirit that the CRIMSON, realizing the difficulties which the Athletic Association has to face, criticized the present method of allotting tickets. There was no suggestion of any of the "graft" which the author of the communication likes to dwell upon, and the reference to "privileged classes" in the editorial was to the seven groups listed under that head in the Athletic Association's statement of last November...
Many of the fancied wrongs of our times will disappear when educated men reflect and dwell upon the blessings which are theirs, when they insist upon temperate speech, when they are concerned more with performance than promise, when they realize that saying a thing does not make it so, when they are willing to grant to others the same integrity of motive which they ascribe to themselves, and when rejoicing in all that is true and good it is their burning purpose...
...college teams, and also, to a certain extent, the hero-worship of the players, which we see at home. But a sensible and intelligent press has perceived the dangers to college sport of too much publicity. The sporting pages present facts in a terse and dignified manner, and seldom dwell...
While deploring the present status of the drama in the universities, Mr. Eaton still clings to the higher institutions as the back-bone of the theatrical world of today. "In our colleges lies the future hope of the drama", he declared, and went on to dwell at length on the few evidences of a dramatic revival in American hails of learning. Foremost among these latter is the 47 Workshop at the University, given under the direction of Professor G. P. Baker '87. This is the pioneer course in dramatics among American colleges. Its object it not to study the drama...