Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Along with the huge increase in American university enrollment during the past decade there is also to be noted a striking change in the manner in which these hordes of students are spending their summer vacations. Time was, and not so long ago, when the only fit place for the undergraduate from June to September was a hammock, nicely fortified with cooling drinks and those strange things known as summer novels. In any other position he was considered anachronistic; somehow a winter occupied with scholastic endeavors demanded a quite idle and useless antidote...
...whole program will be pitched at the public in the most striking manner and will be accompanied by a conferencier using the most refined expressions...
...Mary Jobe Akeley returned to Manhattan from Africa completing the work of the gorilla-collecting museum expedition on which her husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies...
...long awaited report of the Dartmouth Athletic Council on the football proposals referred to it by President Hopkins last winter is surprising both in the clear and concise manner of its statement and the general favor which it accords to the primary aims of the Dartmouth head. True it disagrees outright with one suggestion and expresses considerable doubt as to the efficacy of another, while supporting the most revolutionary of the proposals in full. But even as it refuses to acknowledge the "thought that college football anywhere has been so exploited beyond all other college activities as to seriously...
...volume contains would be impossible, also unnecessary since one can do much worse than go out immediately to buy a private copy. There is no telling at what unexpected moment it may become valuable. Especially if the Boston Censorship Board take a peek at "A Ghost Story, in the manner of Sherwood Anderson...