Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...club is also working on the speakers' program for the coming season. Its aim this year is to get men who are outstanding in their field. The quality of the speakers is to be maintained even at the expense of quantity. The list will not be completed for several weeks and the first address will not take place before November...
Notwithstanding, there are moments that aren't a bit bad, situations, that, for all their metronome-like precision of planning, get their points over in a routine and unhilarious manner. In fact, the playing is just that--routine and unhilarious. All the actors, with the possible exception of Mr. Mitchell, seem to have been deadened in years of stock work. Their character drawing is unsubtle, all darkness and brightness, with no intermediate shading...
Today, after two weeks of drilling and reorganizing, which was considerably slowed by the addition of new men who had been cut from the 1933 squad, the Dormitory teams will get under way in their annual series Gore Hall will tackle Standish, last year's undefeated interdormitory champions, while Smith and McKinlock are fighting it out on another field...
Cohen wanted to find out what the police would do if he distributed his circulars, and now he knows; they object very much to having circulars distributed, and have promised him a summons for next Thursday. He will doubtless get a nominal penalty, and the Transcript will come out with a benign editorial to the effect that Cohen is a bad boy but that time will teach him discretion. So Cohen will find himself not a martyr, but merely a "source of innocent merriment", which is not an agreeable position for a crusader...
...early in the second canto, worked back to the 35-yard stripe. Here two passes, Brown to Kimball and Keesling to Broaca coupled with a seven yard run by the latter put the pigskin across the goal. Harvard worked some pretty laterals in the fourth period but could not get beyond the 22-yard stripe...