Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class teams are for two kinds of men," continued Coach Cheek, "those who want to play football for the fun of it, and those who are looking ahead with a possible view toward winning a berth on the University squad. It is to these latter men in particular that class football offers unique advantages. The opportunities for expert individual coaching in special branches of the game, which after all is the only way to learn, are much better than any where else except possibly on the University squad itself...
Scotch Mist. Sir Patrick Hastings,* onetime (1924) Attorney General of Great Britain under the James Ramsay Macdonald ministry, writes of a captivating lady who prefers South Africa with a masterful Scotch lover to England with a member of the British Cabinet, even though the latter happens to be her lawful, wedded husband. Into this little triangle, Sir Patrick has thrown a few chips of bright dialog, but hardly enough to exalt his play above dangerous mediocrity. Rosalinde Fuller tosses about in the role of devastating Mary Denvers with a jerkiness that irritates in spite of her sincerity. Before visiting these...
...Story.* When Captain Frémont entered California in 1846, 25 troopers, trained to a hair mounted on stallions, wearing gold-braided green uniforms, met him in the mountains. Impressed, Frémont complimented the burly Swiss who led them and the latter, Johann August Sutter, conducted Frémont to an eminence to behold New Helvetia, the largest richest one-man domain in the New World...
...their subjects a framework for their philosophy. A philosophy of life must be the aim of Education, and whether it result in a religious or a humanistic philosophy is of little concern to the essayist, though one may suspect from his strong classical bent that he would prefer the latter result...
Opening day enrolment at the Law School showed a large increase with 1353 students, as compared with 1191 last year, and includes a record first year class of 674, whereas the figure for the latter in September...