Word: give
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time in Emerson J, Professor Hersey is to give an illustrated lecture entitled "A Walk in Dickens Land". It will be accompanied by lantern slides of the scenes of various events in Dickens' novels. And finally those who are interested in French literature can hear M. Andre Chevrillon speak (in French) on the great critic Taine...
When asked if she could give any reasons for the unsuccessful dramatic season in New York this year, Miss Cowl said: "The season has been utterly disastrous, financially and artistically. There are a number of reasons for this condition, comprising factors which have been slow in coming to a head. The first is that the tastes of the public are obviously becoming lower. The second is that the management of plays is no longer in the hands of a few well established men, but in the hands of many persons some of whom have been mere ticket takers, have accumulated...
...recommendation of Dean Max McConn of Lehigh University to partition the student bodies of the American universities into the two divisions of kindergartens and colleges, seems to be an efficient means of separating the fiddling grasshoppers from the industrious ants. The Lehigh Dean would give the gentlemen with the social and activity bent a large playground in the country where they get plenty of fresh air and be able to satisfy their pressing desires to attain extra-curricular prominence. The remaining portion of the collegiate population, intent upon scholastic honors, and which, according to Dean McConn, amounts to one half...
...lose through some unlucky break. The new rule will lessen such occurrences. But," he added, "it does so by sacrificing excitement. It seems to me that the present tendency calls for an excessive removal of chance. Breaks have a real place in a football game; they certainly give it a healthy tenseness; and I don't think any one of us is so afraid of them that he'd want them all eliminated...
...dust of the "dark horses", who have it in their power to overturn the calculations of the dopesters and cast the margin of victory in favor of the outsiders. Unexpected Indian performances, cutting into the total of Cornell points, coupled with unforseen exhibitions by unheralded Harvard athletes may well give the University the edge necessary for a fifth victory. Upsets in the mile and two mile events in particular will change the entire aspect of the meet...