Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four lettermen, including two intercollegiate champions from last year, are available this year for the wrestling team. Captain T. D. Howe '28, light-heavyweight, and S. S. Wilson '28, heavyweight, have returned, with C. C. Corson '28, intercollegiate 145 pound champion last year, and Joseph Lifrak '29, intercollegiate 135 pound champion...
...coaches) are hard at work. No one of them makes a hero purposely; they make good football players who will help to win games. Too bright a hero steals most of the glory from his college; all of it from his coach. Though stars burn out quickly, the quieter light of coaches burns steadily in the football background. Who now knows the names of Russell Lloyd or J. T. Haxall?* But who does not know of Robert C. Zuppke (Illinois), Hugo Bezdek (Penn State), Glenn Warner (Stanford), William W. Roper (Princeton), Gilmour Dobie (Cornell), Fielding H. Yost (Michigan), Howard...
...lady in Study of My Mother is sitting in an armchair by a window through whose heavy curtains only enough light soaks to touch the hands that lean against her steep lap. Her severe face makes her thought a secret. Maybe she is thinking about God, maybe she is wondering what time it is. But her eyes are looking at something through the dark room beyond its darkness...
Sixteen East Gay Street is a picture of a street in Columbus, Ohio. Several people are walking along the sidewalk and a pair of children are fixing a tricycle. In the space between the two houses across the street the sky slants a light on the asphalt, and makes the leaves of the trees as bright as coins. It is late afternoon; in the golden twilight everything seems very quiet. If you look at the picture long enough, the man sitting on the porch will fold up his paper and go in to have supper...
...corrected his reputation as a fiery fop by leading the Light Dragoons to splendid distinction in the capture of Valentia d'Alcantara. after which he was elected to Parliament and later appointed by the King to be Governor of Fort William. The war with the Colonies started and Burgoyne came to America. To him this place must have appeared unreal and picaresque; as it appears in old engravings and panoramas, a country of little, round hills, of funny irregular cities upon whose wide quiet squares a few bewildered people postured, of dark mysterious forests in which Indians trotted and yodeled...