Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undesirable man to have around. He was likely to do more harm than good. He wouldn't stay hitched. You might send him after the cows and he might take a gun and shoot the farmer's pigs instead. I never saw anybody who could get away with a hand-to-hand encounter with a skunk. I don't mean to call Mr. Shearer a skunk...
...alas, in every college. He is the tortoise of the class, who struggles wearily on before the proddings of his parents and his schoolmasters. In the discreet fastness of the faculty room, his masters will tell you that he is a complete moron. His mother, on the other hand, will assure you that he is really quite brilliant, only he is so shy and sensitive that his masters never know it, for he becomes tongue-tied in class and paralyzed in examinations. Often enough, both are wrong. If the boy can be found some afternoon (when he should be studying...
...present reviewer is distinctly a Marxophil; there is no question that he will attend and enjoy every piece in which Harpo Marx has a part; Harpo's countenance insures it. And so with this introduction and explanation let us proceed to a consideration of the performance at hand, which is "Animal Crackers", now playing at the Shubert Theatre...
...present there are practically no eligibility requirements recognized universally by colleges throughout the country. On the other hand there are highly developed codes such as those existing between Harvard and Yale, Yale and Princeton, the "Little Three", Williams, Amherst, and Wesleyan, and the "Big Ten" conference, and many others which definitely define the eligibility qualifications required of athletes. The transition from this state of sectional understanding to one of national scope would be facilitated all the more by the linking of organizations already in existence...
...other hand any steady progression in this policy from year to year might lead to an unfortunate condition which exists at present in many colleges which gives the student who slumps once no chance to try again. Even the most infallible judge in a dean's office must realize that there are times when mistakes in judgment are impossible to avoid, and even when there is no mistake made in closing a student's connection with a college the whole future life of a person may be completely altered by such action. Such a realization has always been shown...