Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Government's plan to help India in preparing for full dominion home-rule, with moving people by Western catchwords, with committing a great crime against their fellow-countrymen and civilization. He refused to believe that Britain would leave 300,000,000 people of India to their fate in the hands of irresponsible agitators. He was of the opinion that the gradual extension of constitutional power in that country was the only policy that Britain could follow. Such a speech, from so temperate a man as Balfour, who rarely has mixed in Indian affairs, was said to have profoundly...
Wild Oranges. This screen version of Joseph Hergesheimer's novel carries out with simple but concrete symbolism the very quality of wild oranges-bitter sweet to the first taste, growing more zestful with each bite, or closeup. Its story is that of a man embittered at fate by the sudden loss of his young bride, who hesitates to take the fruit of Eden offered to him in the person of a lonely girl of the Georgia coast, prisoner alike of fear and a maniacal murderer. The man who fears life's traps finally clutches at the fruit, rescuing...
...carried along willy-nilly, as in the American college, over a certain number of hazards and hurdles. But education can never be other than a problem for each individual student. The immediate question which it is necessary to answer, is shall he decide his own fate and profit according to his own inclination and ability or shall he be standardized and machine-handled like each of his fellows, entirely regardless of his own individual capacity...
Upon first consideration the plan suggested by Director Blossom of Yale for an intercollegiate baseball league is appealing, but Major Moore's vigorous denial of the rumor that Harvard would enter such a league is based upon more than a recollection of the unfortunate fate of such an association in 1887. The problem of the increased expense involved in organization of schedules under an intercollegiate league could perhaps be met by raising the price of tickets, which would in turn probably necessitate a discarding of the present plan of admission to games on Soldiers Field by H. A. A. books...
...only remaining seeded player in the University squash tournament, G. B. Debevoise '26, followed the fate of his erstwhile colleagues when he was defeated yesterday in the semi-finals by J. D. Du Bois '24, by the score...