Word: movements
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...committee wishes to express its appreciation of the interest extended by the sponsors, of the generous financial support of the Aero Club of America, graduates and others, and of the assistance and valuable advice given by those interested in the movement. Also the committee especially appreciates the co-operation of the schools and instructors, and above all else, the earnest, unfailing energy, patience and determination of those undergraduates who devoted their summer to this work and who are primarily responsible for the results obtained. ROGER AMORY '10. ALLAN FORBES '97. G. H. BALCH '12." The financial statement follows...
...following attributes must be considered: agility, grace of movement, reach, proficiency in tossing the megaphone to one side at the beginning of a cheer, and vocal timbre...
...side lines, leap high into the air and with a deft gesture of the index finger draw from his cheering section a perfect salvo, sometimes two salvi, of applause. I have seen him handle the Michigan "locomotive," a clumsy oratorio at best, with a deftness of forearm movement and an utter absence of physical effort which transformed it into a veritable octavo volume of sound with deckled edges...
...flaunt their waers in our faces with an are of rakish conviviality; but why should the CRIMSON hesitate to do what most reputable newspapers and magazines have long since done and expel such advertising altogether? College papers are traditionally idealistic. Some of them have been the pioneer spokemen in movements for civic betterment. Shall the CRIMSON chcose to stand aloof from this great national movement and let others do the fighting while it takes in the shekels which the brewers are so lavishly expending to stave off the evil...
...prose, Mr. Longyear's "'Goose' Brodie" is a notably successful attempt to carry us back to the days of the African slave trade, with the difficult vehicle of Scotch dialect. The movement of the story is uninterrupted, the episodes clearly drawn, and the dialect at once consistent and unobtrusive. The tale is better than Mr. Plummer's sketch of a cat which became ship's mascot. This unpromising subject is, however, handled in a manner which, if a trifle juvenile, is far from puerile. The way in which cross-eyed Mike "stared in royal disdain, his left eye terrifying...