Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is a noticeable lack of enthusiasm on the part of the average undergraduate. The attendance at important games-- even games with Yale--is not impressive and very few except those actively engaged are interested in the season's outcome. The lack of prestige connected with membership on a minor sport varsity team is only one evidence of the prevailing lack of interest...
There is one thing which the Theatre Guild can be trusted to do well; that is, casting. Jacob Ben Ami and Winifred Lenihan (who did well as Anne Hathaway in Will Shakespeare) offer two performances as fine as anything in the current Theatre. Masterly interpretations in minor parts are supplied by favorite players of many Guild productions, viz.: Dudley Digges, Henry Travers, Helen Westley...
...years of pursuit, and with the acquisition of almost every one is connected a tale of adventure or hardship. Two Seljuk " bird rugs," woven in 1550, were secured in Constantinople in 1922 and went with him through the sack and massacre of Smyrna. Hungary, Thrace, Rhodes, Asia Minor, Persia, Bagdad, Damascus-all are represented...
...airmen will fly facing the sun. Testing their craft by a long flight across the continent from Seattle to the Atlantic coast, they will fly to Europe, probably by way of Greenland or Iceland, thence through Central and Southern Europe, Asia Minor, Arabia, India, China, Japan; and home by way of Alaska. This itinerary will cover 27,000 miles, nonrecognition of the Soviet Government precluding the much shorter route through Siberia...
...most important innovation this year is the rule providing that a player who has been fouled must make the free throw. No one may be substituted for him as heretofore unless he has to leave the floor on account of injuries. Other minor changes have also been made, providing that the basket shall be of white netting and that time shall be called during the first free throw if two are taken as a result of a personal foul inside the end zone against a man in possession of the ball. Only one free throw will be allowed...