Word: lows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...takes to run. The voodoo doings, the cotton pickings and Bible-shoutings are just what a certain class of people, educated to consider Negro life "colorful" and "primitive" expect of the race, just as people of another class expect vaudeville patter and tap-dancing. The pathos, based upon the low temperature of the ground enclosing somebody named Massa, is repetitious. All is redeemed, however, by the humor of a gaunt, pop-eyed blackamoor named Stepin Fetchit, cast as "Gummy," laziest of blackamoor husbands. The unpretentious story, genuinely moving at its best, at its worst a kind of Bostonian black-bottom...
...dropped and readmitted Freshmen responsible for the yearly increment of poor students. In order to have more and more of these persons unfitted for promotion to Sophomore standing one must be continually supplied at the beginning of Freshman year with more and more incapables. To say that the low standing of any given class is in a measure due the large number of dropped and readmitted men is of course valid, but it is fallacious to point to a continued increase of poor records as the result of this condition unless the increase in the number of these...
Already the matter of September admission second in importance in this part of the Dean's report, has been discussed and disposed of. Apparently there is nothing left but a consideration of Mr. Hanford's class number three, that of men submitting low admission records. Crucial point that it is, this problem deserves all possible attention; all other explanations of the phenomenon of unsatisfactory college work lead inevitably to the advisability of admitting men with dubious records. No scurrying about after secondary effects should be allowed to distract the attention of those committed to seeing that the right...
...guest bows-and soon finds himself in the Genoese velvet Green Room. Just beyond is the spacious, cream-paneled East Room with gold damask draperies and twelve Æsop's Fables in low relief. Here amid more potted palms, the line of march disperses...
...does not leave by the door opposite where he came in. If he did, he would find himself in the President's telephone ("Main 6") and cloakroom or, beyond that, in the Cabinet Room with its long low reddish table, set about with black leather chairs.* Instead, he marches right rear to a door letting him into another corridor. Now he must turn to the left. To the right is the way the President goes when returning to the White House (via the basement) or when going out to his posinground to be photographed...