Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly after this P. N. Jarek made the first Lowell basket, but Captain R. H. O'Connell '29 retaliated with as long shot and another one from a scrimmage under the goal. Rex and R. F. Mahady '29 each counted, while Lowell could make only one basket and several free tries. The half ended with Harvard leading...
...Long acknowledged has been the fact that the mere passing of examinations is not a trustworthy passport to college. At college there must be adaptation to new environment. The Hill is a strict school. Students must attend classes, chapel; lights must go out at given times. At most colleges students may cut classes, chapels, and lights may burn indefinitely. Argues The Hill: If a boy's record, ability and achievement indicate that he is better fitted for some activity other than college life, it is our duty to guide him away from college, and into the environment where he will...
...Author. Born and bred in Charleston, S. C., Author Heyward comes of a long line of planters, impoverished and stripped of their feudal rights after the Civil War. Evidence of his inborn understanding of the Negro was the novel Porgy. With the aid of his wife, a playwright by profession, the novel was dramatized and most successfully produced last year by the Theatre Guild...
...Significance. The story of two generations of Charleston "waterfront niggers" scheming and suffering to give the third generation a "chance" follows Mamba through naive cajoling relationship with "her white folks" follows Hagar through backsplitting labor in the phosphate mines; ends with Lissa scoring triumph at the opera. The long process is marked off by many a high moment of comedy, tragedy, melodrama. Mamba's "my white folks" play considerable part in the book, but are important and interesting only as protectors to Mamba's daughters. The story loses force by their presence, but is the more valuable as sociology...
...only knowledge, but also the student's selective ability in using that knowledge to support his own reactions. This in turn demands time. In other words a short examination, calling for as much reflection and marshaling of material as actual writing, is greatly to be preferred to a long, elaborately subdivided paper which can be mel only by a hasty deluge of crammed facts and catch word opinions...