Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hotchkiss, with one former victory and with its success this year, has two legs on the trophy. The Country Day School of Boston, St. Mark's, and Kent School have each won it once. With two years to go, the contest for permanent possession may well lie between Springfield Central High and Hotchkiss...
That the Republican administration is failing to appeal to the progressive and idealistic spirit of the country is evident. How far public resentment will go remains to be seen. The strength of the Democrats as a while seems to lie largely in the desire of the people to vote for that party as it happens to be the only instrument of vengeance which can be employed against those in power...
...first place, it does not assume the right attitude towards the student. Proverbially one can catch more flies, with honey than with molasses and the secret of getting results from the student certainly does not lie in antagonizing him. Even the placard announcing the first meeting of German A fairly breathed forth animosity, proclaiming as it did that students not attending this meeting "must be prepared to be assigned to sections less convenient to them." Moreover there are two glaring faults in the manner of conducting the course. It is reasonably poor psychology to reassign sections on the beginning...
...total number concentrating in Engineering Sciences does not represent the real popularity of engineering, as most men whose tastes lie in this direction enter the Engineering School...
...remember when we were rehearsing "Hamlet" up in London, a poor little fellow came to me and applied for the part of Second Grave Digger. He was very much discouraged at the way things were going, and he wished the part of Second Grave Digger so he could lie down and pull the grave in after him. By degrees, I got his story from him, and the great outstanding fact about it was that he had neglected to visit, every so often, his home town. Indeed, he couldn't remember where his home town was located, so I made...