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Word: hards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indians have played and lost three hard games. They have suffered defeat at the hands of the Army. Penn State, and University of Pennsylyama Furthermore, the Dartmouth twelve will be handicapped by lack of outdoor practice while the University team has a week's practice period at Sytacuse to its credit during Spring Becess as well as constant practice since its return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM CLASHES WITH DARTMOUTH TODAY | 5/4/1929 | See Source »

...obvious answer to the problem is that the present idle surplus of the H. A. A. be used in completing the gymnasium. What earthly objection there can be to such a plan it is hard to imagine. The H. A. A. itself is in favor of it but has so far been detained in carrying out its own wishes by pressure from the Corporation. The doings and deliberations of this body are always cloaked in obscurity and the motivation of its decisions not always apparent. In the present instance, the Corporation's reluctance to let the H. A. A. spend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. SURPLUS | 5/2/1929 | See Source »

...would be rash," writes A. P. Herbert, in Punch, "to suggest that there is a decline in the celebrated sense of humor. But there is a plague of touchiness. The lot of the humorous writer is an increasingly hard one. If we are merely mild and agreeable the critics cry at us: 'Have you nothing to say? Have you no fierceness, no anger, no satire?' They little know, Whenever we do say anything, it is considered propaganda, or else a breach of taste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY STEPS ON NO TOES IN NEW PARODY NUMBER | 5/1/1929 | See Source »

...alarming to warrant long stories and topcolumn head lines. There is a significance in his words, however, which though lacking in immediate appeal reflects a fundamental American educational problem. It is the fact that President Lowell was talking to school masters and giving them a little of the cool, hard headed advice which has begun to have its effect in institutions of higher learning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEACHING THE TEACHER | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...sent up to them from secondary schools. It is during the four or five pre-college year that one's habits of study and interest in learning are most easily formed. Theoretically it should be the time for "quickening the appetite for intellectual things, making men realize that working hard is worth while." But owing to the many complications arising in our present system, it is not until a man gets to college that anything like this happens, and how often it is then too late. Admittedly the problem of secondary education in America is a hard one. The "tyranny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEACHING THE TEACHER | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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