Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest of the week. On Thursday William and Mary will meet the University nine on Soldiers Field, while the Crimson team will go over to Medford to play Tufts at the end of the week. These contests should provide the Harvard players a chance to recover a long lost batting and fielding eye and come out of their prolonged slump before the Yale series next week...
...growth of the size of colleges. All of them are qualities much to be desired in college life and which few institutions would willingly do without. They are the things the "old grads" remember with the greatest tenderness when the last memory of what they learned in courses has long since been forgotten. But what of the primary function of the college--the education it is intended to provide? Nothing has yet been evidenced to prove that this quality is affected one way or the other by increased enrollments. This is necessarily true, for study is in its essence...
...loss of the intimate relationships within the campus group that characterized the colleges of the past and still exist among the smaller ones today will mean, if it is carried to the limit, the elimination of much that is distinctive and enjoyable in university life. But so long as the educational process is not interfered with in the individual, the real contribution of the colleges is in no danger from mere increase in size...
Blue laws may have had-their origin with the Puritans in Massachusetts, but it has remained for the twentieth century and the state of New Jersey to realize their full possibilities. The town of Westwood in that state has long been oppressed by a heartless law forbidding movies on Sundays. Last Sunday came the climax of a campaign for their emancipation, when Allan Meyer, who had combined the positions of Justice of the Peace and manager of the moving picture theater, took up the standard of Sunday movies and opened his theater. Haled to court and made...
...poor Janey has found in him a worthy object of long delayed grande passion, and after a week of endearing herself to his tribe she persuades her handsome bandit that he too cares terribly, terribly much. But marriage?-ah, he cannot allow her to share the dangers of his hunted existence...