Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfortunate that the peculiarities of the clock have been revealed and the cherished belief that it gained one minute a week regularly thus destroyed. Belated students hastening to nine o'clocks will derive small comfort if the clock indicates five minutes past--when it may possibly mean ten minutes past. And if perchance, its solemn gong should announce the arrival of ten o'clock at an unseemly, early hour, such as half-past nine, there will be wise and knowing shaking of heads instead of a healthy, jubilant rush for the doors. Ignorance has always been bliss for those...
...running again. It was the absence of Captain J. W. Burke '23, who was occupied in winning the 600 and 1000 yard runs, which lost the University an opportunity to score in that meet. In the coming contest however, the presence of J. N. Watters '26 should mean that a repetition of that performance is by no no means a foregone conclusion. It will be Watter's first University mile so that his showing will be significant...
...Arena tonight. With the initial Eli contest only four days away, this evening's fracas with the local club team is regarded as a keying-up process for the big session with Yale on Saturday. Although warming up in action will be the main objective tonight, this does not mean that Coach Winsor is enthusiastic about coming out with the chilly end of the score...
Admiral Eberle knows full well what the loss of the Panama Canal in war-time would mean. In 1898 he was aboard the Oregon on her famous run around the Horn to join Admiral Sampson against the Spanish fleet at Santiago, Cuba. Since then he has been twice around the world in the line of duty: once with the Atlantic Fleet on its circumnavigation in 1908, again in command of the gunboat Wheeling. Six months ago he was appointed Chief of Naval Operations. Now the umpires come to him with the verdict: "The Canal is wrecked; the fleet is wrecked?...
...play is by Owen Davis and was awarded the Pullizer prize for 1923. It shows admirably a certain side of the old, hidebound New England stock. But we refuse to recognize the mean and small souled characters as they are presented. There is another side that Mr. Davis has left off stage...