Word: fain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following men were retained in the trials last night for the debate on May 2 with Columbia and Pennsylvania, laurence Dimsdale '26, M. N. Drake '28, W. P. Exton Jr. '26,I. J. Fain '27, S. B. McGavran '28, E. J. Metzdorf '26, George Staff '26, and J. E. Stocker...
...shall sunder," "Thou'dst best beware," "I know not what I'm saying or what I'm doing" were hackneyed when Alfred Lord Tennyson was a litle boy in Lincolnshire and completely outmoded long before he was an old man in Aldworth. Such archaisms as "dight," "say him nay," "fain," such clicheés as "balmy breezes," "surly portals" are all shoddy stuff. They are no easier to sing than good English. Yet the fault was not Translator Meltzer's, for the general run of librettos are concocted out of just such snips, snails, puppydogs' tails of poetry...
Lewis Hyman Weinstein '27 of Portland, Maine, and Irving Jay Fain '27 of Providence, Rhode Island, have been appointed second assistant managers of the debating team. Fain is to have charge of the class debates. These appointments are subject to the approval of the Debating Council...
...summary: Harvard N. Y. University Curtis, Kelsey, g. g. Lewis Watson pt. pt. Maier Levin c.pt. c.pt. Lifvergreen Black f.d. t.a. Jablanka Reed s.d. s.a. Masline, McDowell Norris, Salter t.d. f.a. Fain Gillies c. c. Rosenberg Crane t.a. f.d. Macy Sullivan s.a r.d. Berger, Hopper skilling f.a. t.d. Wiedman Thomas (capt.) o.h. o.h. Regan Ehre, Nunneker i.h. i.h. Wilson, Theis...
...That enrolment should be limited by raising the standards of the present system of competitive entrance examinations." The winning Freshman team was, composed of C. H. Johnston, L. S. King, D. L. Dickson, and W. D. Morton, while the losers were D. W. Chapman, J. R. Cherry, L. J. Fain, and F. J. Otis...