Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...representative in the act of regaining some of the unique distinction...time...is held to have been filtered away, and that in the sister--or parent--university, which two years ago sent its debaters to the American Cambridge. Mr. Eliot showed that the foundation belief in international good will which underlies the systems of foreign studentships is not a fallacy. The hope of explaining Nicaraguan excursions, Philippines uprisings, Armistice Day speeches, was slight almost to despair, but the explanation is made, and satisfactorily, too, in the very lair of the suspicious lion. To the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Student goes...
...Vagabond has just returned from celebrating the anniversary of the one time in all the year that his Puritan forebears had a good time. For three centuries the last Thursday in November has seen New England asceticism buried under a pile of stuffed fowl and mince pies in such quantities as to flout the good taste of a Roman Emperor. Frigid godliness in its one attempt to appear human sank for a brief holiday a bit below the line that divides hunger from voracity, and this annual fall from grace has left its mark upon a more moderate posterity...
...should be at least eighteen inches in diameter. Black frocks have been worn for some time of an afternoon. Their days are numbered. The Jews have got hold of them of late; they have become rather tigerish; and blue, reaching fully to the knee, are now considered fully as good form -- two or three bits of cockney slang, by the way, are worth half an hour of the choicest native profanity...
...plays twelve records of various sizes, reproduces them perfectly, rejects them when you don't like one, and plays one a dozen times if you like it especially. "All this, in a very neat mahogany cabinet for $365! The former price of such an instrument, and not a very good one at that...
Coach Stubbs said that in spite of the promising material which was available both Yale and Dartmouth were slated to have good teams and that there were grounds for over confidence. Although there are six letter men returning he said that no position on the team was certain. He also announced that a larger squad will be retained this year to train them for another year...