Word: extended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Drama is the revelation of the potentialities of every man. The theatre is a great mirror of life. All creative activities extend human consciousness, and enlarge human power. But there is this difference. A chemist or an engineer may remain ignorant in other departments of knowledge. The function of drama is to bring the infinite variety of the living world into convenient compass for observation. To increase knowledge of humanity is to enlarge humanity...
...Shares, and the Williams Fund. In previous years this amount has been spent in full, and during 1922-23 was overdrawn. Last year there was an unexpended balance of $2,800 standing to the credit of these funds, which reverts to the principal. The new plan will, therefore, greatly extend the effectiveness of our resources for this purpose...
...Entente armies fighting in France, Marshal Foch was deprived of any power at the Paris Peace Conference. He could make speeches, say what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, but that was all. With all his might he counselled France to extend her northeast frontier to the historic and natural boundary of the Rhine; but the anti-Catholic Clemenceau, no lover of Catholic Foch, would not listen. Indeed, Clemenceau would not listen to much more that the Marshal said...
...game that each gripping moment promised to bring the thrill of victory, and yet each gave way to another quite as stirring. To the wearers of the Crimson go the honorable laurels of a brave defeat; to the warriors in Blue the sincere congratulations which any true sportsman must extend to the victors of a hard-fought fray. Marking as it did Yale's tenth consecutive major sport victory over Harvard, the men of New Haven may well be proud of last night's achievement and of the athletes who have made possible such a record...
...each tutor hand in to the office at the end of the half year a report on each of his students--satisfactory," "barely satisfactory," or "unsatisfactory." When the time comes for the question of academic discipline or honors count this tutorial record as fully as one or two courses. Extend the number of satisfactory grades and reports required, so that no man who does totally unsatisfactory tutorial work can remain in good scholastic standing. Just so, let no man receive a recognition of distinction through a scholarship or Phi Beta Kappa which is not justified by both his course...