Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Green ran wild to triumph 32 to 9. No such walkaway should take place today? Dartmouth may score early and often; but Harvard has a strong offense for the first time in four years, and the Green will not be the only team to gain ground. With Miller fit again, Harvard should have a strong rushing attack; with French, Sayles, and Putnam completing the backfield, and the strongarmed Guarnaccia in reserve, the Crimson forward passes are to be feared by even the strongest opponent. And as Glenn Warner has often said, the best defense is a strong defense. Harvard will...
...more than 3,000,000 men and women in the United States pursuing some kind of education after working hours. Heretofore, largely because of the lack of centralized organization, such as exists in England, there have developed all sorts of fake correspondence schools and extension courses which have been fit subject for Mencken and the Babbitt-baters. The new association, under the Presidency of a man like Dean Russell of Teachers College, Columbia, should be able to weed out the shysters and lend a guiding hand to this much abused but potentially excellent development in education...
...central locations, attractive buildings or rooms. Then, as has been seen, the University, though it hers at last raised the standards of the Freshman Halls tends toward a poor, often purely stupid system of dietetics. Instead of having a capable staff here at Harvard whose training and experience alike fit them for the function of superintending the University dining halls, there is at best a group of former or potential hotel managers and chefs, decidedly of the old school. There are certainly enough skilled at this kind of work who can be obtained for service here...
Even at the end of the story, the reader scarcely understands why Juliet could not fit herself to the spiritual confinements of either her gentle or her plebeian heritage. She may have fallen between two stools, or made her choice, conscious that she was neither fish nor flesh. And this of course is the most real thing in the book. The balance of influence and choice is so nice that it is impossible to determine whether Juliet's problem was solved by decision or necessity...
Imagine that. I draw a side for a moment the shades of secrecy and reveal for a moment a glimpse of my heart, a flash of the real Joe Forecast, not the idol that a discerning public has seen fit to place on a pedestal (and why not?). And what happens? "The funniest ever...