Word: hare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story is built up about Abigail Vane, reared under the stiff tutelage of her aunt, Clemency Vane, and the loving devotion of her wealthy grandfather, Michael Hare. In her teens she is occupied with nothing but her social career, but the war brings a sudden change and Abigail, like "a true Vane", goes to Europe as a canteen worker. After the armistice she meets in a convalescent hospital her old lover who is now married to her best friend, and she feels it her duty to care for him and nurse him back to health. Meanwhile her father has gone...
...attempt to bring unity out of the mass of slightly related material. In this the author has failed. At first the reader is absorbed with the skillful presentation of the Vane household in New England, and one is pleased with the agreeable contrast in the portrayal of Michael Hare and his luxurious surroundings on Fifth Avenue. But it is easy to become impatient, as unimportant characters and situations are introduced merely for the purpose of creating new pictures, making it hard to follow a main thread through the maze of deviating portrayal...
...give the individual more and more freedom, to place the student more on his own responsibility, and to cut down the "you must" attitude. The "News", in one of its editorials favoring the adoption of the resolutions, takes the same position on compulsory chapel that is recognized hare. "The purpose of a church service is to benefit the soul. Does Sunday chapel do this?" "Only a reactionary groups of men, pettishly tyrannic, can leave such an incubus saddled upon a university." Under the suggested change in the cut system "the undergraduate would understand that he is at college to learn...
...scrimmage in front of the goal; Crosby caged another goal a short time afterwards on a dash through the B. U. defence. Although threatening continually in the second and third periods, the University forwards were unable to score again, due principally to the excellent play of Coach O'Hare's defence trio...
...Players will start the contest somewhat handicapped by a lack of team work, due to the fact that this is the first year that their university has taken part in intercollegiate hockey. Coach O'Hare's line-up has not been definitely settled, but a tentative first combination including several veteran players, such as A.J.Provost and C. M.Kontoff, will probably start...