Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between the hours of 5.30 and 7.30 o'clock in the evening on the days which they are scheduled to play their matches. The men will be required to play their matches off on the hour which has ben already arranged for them, and failure to do so will mean default...
...long enough to discourage cramming, during most of the two weeks. Certain courses before Christmas suggest reading to cover twenty years of history after the vacation and before mid-years even though that may not be the more interesting period. Of course, that doesn't mean it is impossible to do what one may want to do. Also, some days are broken up by a class or two as much as when classes were regular...
...total effect of the play is unpleasant; chiefly because it seems to mean nothing. The unfortunate lady, distracted during her period of repression, is driven to suicide when she tries to escape. One feels that the play is aimed to be more sensational than sensible. It verges on morbidity, and though its force cannot be denied, it seems, at best, to be spent in tilting with a windmill...
...contest closed in October. Last week the result was announced-or lack of result. Some 10,000 citizens had tried to make Woodrow Wilson mean $25,000 to them. But, with the seventy-first anniversary of the birth of Woodrow Wilson at hand, Dr. George McLean Harper, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton and foreman of the essay-judging jury, was obliged to announce that not one of the essays submitted was, in substance or style, "fit to be published without embarrassment and submitted to the critical judgment of educated men and women...
Beyond a certain point no technical school can prepare a man for competitive business. Heretofore all that a student employment office could do was to find a man a position and bid him farewell. An unwise choice at that time would mean an uncomplimentary record, damning evidence in the eyes of future employers. When the University Employment Office arranged for the students to do acclimatizing work in the selected field during the summer of their Junior year, or to make arrangements with prospective employers some months before graduation, significant advances were made. The Engineering School has gone farther...