Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel that he need know nothing else . . . The close relation with the tutor, and the operation side by side of the two sets of teachers, promote independence and a spirit of inquiry. If the tutor is the right kind of man, he also occupies somewhat the role of an older brother, when such a role is in place, helps the student solve the problems of college life and even, sometimes, of love affairs. The aim is to make the relation of tutor and tutored informal, human, and genial. While the former normally has an office in which he may meet...
Undergraduates like to believe that with their generation the world is embarking upon a new era of ideas, culture, and general enlightenment. Later, when they grow a little older, they realize that there is nothing new under...
...gospal was never so charming. Other lady evengelists-older, less naive, more obviously theatrical-have argued the good cause before; they too have been moved to frensy before crowds which came for prayer and remained to discuss a personality. But none has so firmly established her message. Not without native guile is Uldine, for she bored the crew of the battleship Pennsylvania with no theological subtleties. "The sailors look so wonderful in their uniforms", she said-and the sins of five hundred middles bowed and bit the dust. What matter if only a paltry three men publicly acknowledged that they...
...title suggests, this little piece is the sister of "No, No, Nanette", which finally passed on to New York a year ago after everyone at Harvard had seen it at least once. The younger sister bears a close resemblance to the older one, and were it not for a few minor differences and the obvious time element, the two girls might almost be called twins...
...Both the Princetonian and the CRIMSON hold unique positions in the diamond game in that neither outfit has ever lost a baseball encounter. So far as is known, the Princeton Tiger has never outscored the Princetonian in a full nine-inning game, and the CRIMSON-Lampoon diamond rivalry, although older than the catcher's mask and the rubber home plate, has yet to see the Mt. Auburn street nine victorious...