Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schools:" Unless the glass of that German school permits passage of ultraviolet light (see your good footnote), it is no better than any well-lighted U. S. schoolhouse, and your report is inane. You give as The Motive "to promote health ;" you give as The Story an esthetic appreciation of the structure. That is deceptive logic-very, very rare in TIME...
...first of these races, the Torpids, are rowed in heavy eights in the fixed seats and alternated seating, the second on slides in center-seated light "shells." These latter races are by far the more important and the week during which they are rowed is known as "Eights week". It constitutes a social event of no mean importance in the life of the undergraduate. It is then that his family and lady friends, the two sometimes clash, expect, to be invited to Oxford, taken out in punts and given tea on the barge...
Today we have the Game, that light which hides at times under the bushel of events, only to burn with undimmed lustre when the last man, woman, and child is drawn to Stadium or Bowl. A game, by all the word implies, includes elements of chance and presupposes the desire to win. Games are played to the won, which has nothing at all to do with the effect of victory or defeat. After the game the competition is over, and the content for superiority, not the goal, is its reward. Over a long period of years Harvard and Yale have...
...genealogy. And so the Student Vagabond, having arrived at the ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into the past, and see what he can find; like the oysterman who drops his rake through the dark waters with the hope of bringing to light at least a few of his stolid prey and perhaps sometimes a rare gem, or like that other, humbler artisan who enriches--but then that is beside the point...
...bouquet of these flowers was the dearest ambition of every Senior. Caps and gowns were cast aside, and the oldest possible clothes were worn. It was every man for himself, and the struggles were tremendous. Sometimes men grouped together, and on the shoulders of four husky men stood one light one, snatching enough flowers for all, while frantic classmates tackled the big men and yanked the small one's shirt from his back ... And now, in this soft age, men merely pelt confetti at their girls, and are pelted in return...