Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's Varsity booters will contend with one of the strongest, hardest playing soccer elevens in this section of the country when Amherst invades the Business School field this afternoon at 2.45 o'clock. Today's game with the Sabrinas mark an attempt by the Crimson to win their third successive New England Intercollegiate contest...
Again we urge the college authorities to use this proof of success in casting aside the out-worn, out-moded, and detrimental mark system and compulsory attendance as we know it today. --The Yale News...
...about six hours a week, there will be no cause for complaint among the undergraduates because those men who have sufficient ability to obtain a higher grade will not think the course too easy to be worth the time taking it, and the men who are under the mark will have to work but not so much that all other activity is excluded. For other activities are important because of the contacts which will remain throughout life and for the refreshment that allows better work when studying is resumed...
Fellow-Poet Mark Van Doren hails Jesse Stuart as an "American Burns." Man with a Bull-Tongue Robert Plow, a collection of 703 sonnetesque verses, sings only homespun heroes, vaunts the excellences of Kentucky farmlife, mourns the mortality of Poet Stuart's love affairs and friends. No book to read through at a sitting, it will prove to the plainest reader that, in Poet Van Doren's words, Stuart is "a rare poet for these times . . . both copious and comprehensible." Some samples of his comprehensible copiosities: Where are the friends of youth I miss ? Elmer and Bert, Oscar...
...example of somewhat poetic justice. Furthermore it has the merit of being illustrated in such a form that even a Rotarian can grasp its significance. Whether Germany can afford to pay the million or so additional dollars which payment of 100 pfennigs on the mark would mean is beside the point, nor will aspersions on the integrity of the German Government or aides memoires suffice to raise the ante. The important thing is that while Germany undoubtedly has both the gold and dollar exchange necessary to effect a complete transfer of interest payments now, she most certainly has not enough...