Word: normal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with casual cowardice, do not contemplate death as they approach it. The result of the mind's bouncing, like a tennis ball, between the racquets of Life and Death, is usually expressed completely, inarticulately, paradoxically, in the trite phrase: "What does it all matter?" Having reached this point, normal people have breakfast; abnormal people kill themselves...
Harvard has already been fortunate in having a great number of distinguished foreign members. They have come here unusually for one purpose-to study, and they have been allowed to go their own way in the normal manner of the average undergraduate. Some, perhaps, have felt a coldness in the traditional Cambridge absence of attention, but the majority have a probably been rather grateful for an atmosphere which minimizes curiosity and accepts one and all in the same spirit of cosmopolitanism. The foreign student wishes to step out of the tourist role, to lose his consciousness of nationality, to observe...
...University and Freshman soccer teams both opened their seasons Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field with victories. Bridge water Normal School took a 5 to 0 defeat from the University booters, while the Crimson Freshmen defeated Dean Academy...
...University soccer team will meet Bridgewater Normal School on Soldiers Field at 2 o'clock today, and the Freshman team will meet Dean Academy here at 1 o'clock...
...article seem reasonable. It justly attributes the unparalleled success of the German preparatory schools to the masterly training of their instructors. That is the place for American educational reform as long as it must be discussed. Why doesn't Mr. Holmes bemoan the existing practice of allowing ordinary normal school graduates to guide the child in the early formative years of his life? Why does it cry that the problem lies in the students' race for graduation units, when that is an extremely minor issue? Why should a child, who would rather be playing ball than attending class, be faced...