Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of the seducer of a girl who has been betrayed, despite her heavily ingrained religiosity. Aside from this feature, chief interest in Roscoe W. Brink's play is atmospheric, its locale being laid in an out-of-the-way community in the Catskills where piety is the main business and every other interest subsidiary. Here, in 1870, the elders, on finding a girl has been misled, hasten her marriage to the son of the village leader, sure that this will hush up everything...
...that may be what will happen," he replied. "But because the ball cannot be kicked quite so high in order to give the team time to get down the field, teams will be more liable to run the ball back from behind the goal line. But of course the main result of this ruling will be to place a premium on a good kicker. Almost anybody can get off a good kick when the ball is placed on the top of a mound...
With this statement, Mr. Russell made his two main suggestions as to the best means of obtaining educational freedom. The first was to teach each student not to believe a thing unless it is so. The second is to choose teachers solely for their abilities to perform their duties...
...done. Even when the main structure is erected and in use, there will be odds and ends to tend to, to straighten up and tidy away or put to possible use. Last year, for example, contests in several sports between winning class teams of the University and Harvard of Princeton were promised, which, for one reason or another, never materialized in some cases there were obvious difficulties, but this year it is hoped that these can be overcome. Outside competition adds an interest, an excitement, an incentive which is both desirable and valuable. That for the near future. For today...
From researches recently conducted by Professor William Lyon Phelps it appears that the day when the main delight of the vacationing college student was light musical comedy is definitely past, Professor Phelps catechized his class in Contemporary Drama at Yale shortly after the spring recess and made the startling discovery that the modern university undergraduate no longer follows in the dreary wake of the t. b. m. Elevated drama is now the mental restorative of the jaded scholar, and girl and music shows and boisterous revues are relegated to the limbo which conceals the Gaiety and the Old Howard...