Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...optimism is not running rampant in the locker rooms of Dillon Field House. The key-note of the atmosphere down there is rather a grim determination to turn in a better record than might be expected from them on paper. There are many experienced observers, however, who leave the practice field voicing the sentiment that at least one major opponent will leave Harvard Stadium this year with a far worse headache than it had bargained...
Grinned Boss Farley as he released this news: "I am sure that the voters in the State of Maine would be quite interested to have Governor Landon explain. . . . It is also interesting to note the generous contributions made by the backers of the American Liberty League...
...readers the most unpleasant aspect of No Mean City is likely to be a note of hypocritical horror that runs through it. Writing as if the poverty-stricken masses they describe belonged to some savage tribe heretofore unknown, the authors solemnly state that "their novel deals only with one seam in the crowded life of the Empire's second city." They add that Glasgow is making a determined effort "to rehouse and to help its poorer citizens." After picturing stables that would tax the strength of a dozen Hercules, they end their book with a vague reference to "preachers...
...Note: The following article has been written specially for the CRIMSON by Peter Hume, a member of Queen's College, Cambridge, and correspondent for the London Post. Mr. Hume is better known in this country as author of the "Cambridge Letter," appearing from time to time in the CRIMSON...
...illustration could be found than an article in The London Times published in 1867. The writer endorses the general view that "the university is mainly a place of education for young men just before they enter upon life and should confine its whole administration to this practical aim." (Please note the word "practical"!) "We are confident," the article continues, "that this view is the one from which Englishmen in general regard the universities. It is a growing subject of discontent among the public that the tutors and professors of both Oxford and Cambridge are becoming more and more absorbed...