Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real contest. He realizes that this is true, especially if Texas 'points' for the game. As to the game and the final score, I just hope the better team will win on merit, not on flukes or fumbles. The possibility of the score doesn't interest me so much as the fact of the game itself. What pleases me is that Harvard, the oldest American university, has reached out over 2,000 miles from the Northeast and extended the glad hand of friendship to Texas, the oldest and largest university in the Southwest, and has said with a smile. 'Come...
Professor Garrod carries on a pleasant tradition in setting aside an afternoon each week to meet and talk informally with men in the University. Scholars such as the Charles Eliot Norton chair brings to Cambridge have much to give which cannot find effective presentation in set lectures. The sort of education and culture which finds its highest expression in a cultivated social intercourse is admittedly more fully developed on the other side of the Atlantic than it is on this newer continent, and visiting professors can add richness and color to a college training by helping American educational institutions...
...located in the Principal's office, allowing him to "pipe" his voice to any or all classrooms. Likewise from the control board may be sent such hand-picked radio entertainment as Great Neck students should hear, talking-machine records, lectures. Because few large schools have adequate auditoriums, because much time is spent moving shuffling menageries of school children to and from meetings, such new-fangled means of classroom communication will be smiled on by educators...
...night was getting cold. Stretcher bearers came in all the time, put their stretchers down, unloaded them and went away. As soon as I got to the dressing station Manera brought a medical sergeant out and he put bandages on both my legs. He said there was so much dirt blown into the wound that there had not been much hemorrhage...
...shortness of the Army's stay. Virtually the only means of contact between the men of the two institutions is that afforded by the welcoming committee. Those in charge of this years group have wisely planned for an unusually large committee, a provision which should make for much greater informality and flexibility than the old plan of assigning but a few men to do the honors of the Yard...