Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This intangible quality of inspiration has a great deal to do with winning athletic contests. Some coaches feel it is best for a team's morale to wear a long face before important contests, particularly in the presence of newspapermen. If someone speaks of a Gildobian atmosphere, it doesn't require any diagram for a normal college student to know that that is a short way of saying "the gloom is thick enough to cut with a knife." And yet, on the opposite end of the scale, it would be doing Farrell an injustice to declare that his optimism...
Much of the mumbo-jumbo ritual that used to delight the world of the universities has disappeared; part of it has died a natural death, part has been deliberately discarded. There are some aspects of it which will in all probability remain as long as the colleges do, for the human attachment to ceremony is strong. Commencement crowds look for a certain amount if it, but in a university where oratory has generally sunk so low in undergraduate favor, it would seem that if unwilling Seniors must still speak at their graduation, the audience might be given the choice...
...first half of the telegraphic golf match with the University of Oregon the Harvard players were badly beaten. This was doubtless due in a large part to the fact that the Belmont Springs Course was very soft with slow greens and long grass whereas the Eugene. Oregon, course, as stated in their telegram, was hard with conditions excellent for play...
...given in the school during the winter by a member of our staff in cooperation with two professors from New York University. The need of a serious graduate course in orthodontia was apparent to the committee, as it has been to the members of this particular department for a long time. Plans were started to organize such a course and the announcement of a graduate course in orthodontia was made in June for the coming year, this course to run throughout the entire academic year. This probably is the first course of its kind devoting this amount of time...
...whole search for the desired man is just beginning Harrison will be given several days at as is new position in order to give the oarsmen and Coach Brown a good opportunity to judge the relative merits of the new oar. Since one or two paddles over a long distance may be in order this week, Harrison will undoubtedly prove his worth within the next few days. He is tall, heavy, and possessed of a great deal of racing experience but whether or not he will shape up to the requirements for a good stroke oar whether Gains...