Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What the members of preparatory schools receive in any inordinate degree is a preparation for the features of college life, unrecorded, except when carried to extremes, in the Dean's office Football, publications, activities of all sorts are bathed in holy light through out the quadrangles of many a famous church school. One studies to get into college so that he may engage in these activities on a large scale and once in this same person studies only that he may remain, and become a Big Man. The constant information that seeps back to the old school about former graduates...
...tablets, of the life of a people who flourished so long ago, is a notable contribution of our first campaign and will be hailed by all students of early civilization. Not only on local affairs, but on ethnic and international relations, these documents will shed much-needed light...
Competitors in this last test for Juniors and Sophomores will be graded on a point basis according to the amount of work done and accepted. During the first week the duties will be light while the new men are familiarized with the fundamentals of journalistic work. Because of this, lack of experience does not prove a handicap at the start of the competition...
...students of Philosophy A will quite probably support the opinion that to bring Philosophy to Main Street is not entirely to be regretted. And in doing so Dewey has not soiled the purity of intellectual emotion,--merely strained off the soporific wanderings of contemporary philosophy to bring to light certain basic principles common to modern civilization. Values and standards have been the chief concern of philosophy, he maintains, but the standards by which most of us judge values are based on the contemplative tradition and "the elements of that tradition are so far removed from the actualities of modern life...
Rinehart never lived so wildly in the Egyptian hotel as he did that night in Harkness. . . . The Grand Central Station saw two hundred alumni, and wife, dance "Up the Street" by the light of red flares, until two policemen arrived. . . . At eleven o'clock in Cambridge the great drum of the band, accompanied by one trumpeter, marched Mount Auburn Street until Sunday made victory...