Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth scene is a welcome (though unintentional) lot-down. The next two again build terror, that ends in the shooting of the witch-doctor with the silver bullet which negro had intended to save for himself. The catastrophe is powerful in its contrasting mildness; the death of the emperor offstage, and the subsequent appearance of his body, verges dangerously on the anticlimactic. Perhaps it will sound like a plea of the sensational, but one cannot suppress a feeling that the play would end more effectively when the natives fire the fatal shots...
...fail to see where there is any substantial argument in favor of starting practice three weeks before college opens in the fall; to be sure, the players must have time to get into condition, and a lot of injuries would result if this time were not taken. If pre-season practice is eliminated, it would not be possible to play as many games as at present; it is our opinion that a five game season is long enough. And after all it looks a bit out of proportion to say that it is not necessary to be at college...
...more awful actuality. From far Australia the soft padding of Mr. Johnson's paws are clearly audible in London; and in London, thirsty longshoremen have voluntarily foregone their beer. To the unfortunate students of literature at Cambridge we extend our sympathy; to them undoubtedly has fallen the unpleasant lot of having Sir Arthur's doctrines forced down their throats. They can reject them and become threadbare hack-writers; or swallow them and attain the airy pinnacles reached by our own Mr. Tumulty...
...reveal "sloppy" work and work that does not justify itself. If trying to analyze results is of any use to others, they have a right to ask us also to try and do it. For I have found that the college men have really given a lot. Most of them have paid all their own expenses, and, more than that, have worked like tigers...
...latest of the many suggestions for the panacea which is to keep college athletics free from any taint of professionalism is a board of control for Harvard, Yale and Princeton. We have said so much of late (but so have a lot of other people) about college athletics--and particularly about intercollegiate football--that we hesitate to devote any more space to it. This, however, we hope will be the last for some time to come...