Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...implications of having "a major subject" will be increased specialization. The new plan has, of course, certain limitations. A student's liberty of choice is curtailed. Then, too, a college which demands the selection of a "major" or "field of concentration" runs the constant danger of becoming vocational and narrow in its highly departmentalized intellectual outlook...
...Esquire's feminine investigator as grossly overrated: "They are not gallant in a practical way. They meet you at a bar for cocktails at five-thirty, make violent love to you-and then go home for dinner." Physically "they are not only short: they are thin, too, with narrow shoulders and wide hips: in other words-bell-bottomed." Nor can they hold their liquor: "All Latins have trouble with their livers and if they drink too much they get very sick." On puerile obscenity they thrive: "The simplest reference to the bathroom and the elimination processes of the digestive...
Possession of a ticket will enable students to use a broad comp, narrow comp, or single shell for not over forty-five minutes per day at Weld Boat House during the fall and spring terms, or a wherry for not over thirty minutes. The rowing equipment in Newell Boat House is also available...
...good deal more difficult to narrow the backfield down to two likely possibilities for each position. It now looks as though Vernon Struck will be the first string bucker, with Bill Watt as an able alternative. Kicking and passing may earn George Roberts a starting place in the backfield, as may the running of Phil Brooks. "Chief" Boston and Clif Wilson, both Sophomores, the latter captaining his Freshman team, are waging one of the closest battles of the squad for honors at blocking back. Although Wilson has generally played with the A eleven, Boston has done some spectacular defensive work...
...previous books, suggesting that he has put aside the Irish revolution as material for his fiction, and concentrated on tragedies of peace more compatible with his peaceful style of writing. This time he tells the story of Corney Crone, born in Cork in 1873, the son of a narrow, unsuccessful, whining father and a slovenly mother who soon drove four of their five children from home. The fifth was feeble-witted. Corney's youth was dominated by his picturesque, poetic grandfather, an old Fenian who lived in a garret and spouted Shakespeare to his grandchildren. Corney...