Word: mid-western
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...Walker's story on the inner turmoils of a mid-western freshman is obviously as sincere as anything in the issue, but it fails because his narration seems affected. Marie Winn's "Day of Wrath" is one of a current genre of back woods revival stories. Although her approach is not original, she does succeed in infuriating the reader by obscuring the action, meanwhile saying that she at least knows what is happening. Faulty narration can be employed with good effect is psychological writing, but Miss Winn only leaves one wondering if she herself has a clear idea of what...
...preparation, Love has kept the same eight oarsmen which lost by a deck length to the mid-western brawn of Wisconsin last week. He's satisfied that the past week's intensive workouts have put the eight in the best trim possible. What are its chances of winning? Love is deceptively non-committal. "It'll be a tough race from the word go," he ventures. By this he implies it will be both a tough race for Navy to win and even tougher one for the varsity to lose...
Robinson pointed out that the student had received athletic scholarship offers from several mid-western colleges, including Notre Dame, but had not accepted them "because he wanted to go to Yale...
...really just catching up with many western and mid-western schools," Canfield said...
...Donald Peddie '41, chairman of the Minneapolis Harvard Club Schools Committee, and perhaps the College's leading Mid-Western recruiter, yesterday joined other Harvard Club officials in the Far West and South in warning that the imposition of a $10 student application fee would greatly handicap recruiting work...