Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soft droning fills the air, and the Vagabond thrashes uneasily in his bed. It is very early in the morning, he knows, for the alarm clock has not yet shrilled the arrival of another day. Laboriously he opens an eye. Hmm, only six o'clock. At least four hours before the mind will be able to concentrate on work. Raising his head, he looks out the open window. Sun on towers and chimneys already. A pigeon coos on a nearby ledge. Four stories below a watchman's heavy feet lumber past, echoing dully. Hot Golly...
...basic courses in theory Economics 1 is much better than the half year course 2a, but it is open only to honors candidates. Professor Chamberlin lectures excellently in course 1, but there is still need for a half course such as 2a. Nearly all the advanced courses will be found worth while, but they cannot all be taken and must be chosen with the interests and the special field of the concentrator in mind. Course 21a was blamed for wasting the effort of Professor Frickey, for students claimed the material could be covered in less than a mouth...
French 6 is the survey literature course, and is the best course for men outside the field providing they have had enough French. Concentrators should take E Freshman year (if they can) and 6 the following year. The further literature courses are open to men who have passed in 6. Courses 7 and 8, on the literature of the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries respectively, are given in French, contain good material, and are well presented. Concentrators wished Professor Allard would talk a little louder, however...
Started as a circulation stunt, the Golden Gloves boosted not only the number of News readers but the standard of amateur boxing as well. By dividing all the fighters who had the desire and the necessary 25? to become amateur boxers into two classes (sub-novice and open), the Daily News Athletic Association did away with the common practice of matching tough but inexperienced youngsters with ring-wise opponents according to the luck of the draw. Today, almost every city in the U. S. has its Golden Gloves tournament, which stretches over a six-week period from the first neighborhood...
...while promoters got hold of it, did a roaring business with jealous husbands, suspicious partners. Frenchmen stopped buying it first, said it was good only for Anglo-Saxons. But even Anglo-Saxons soon got tired of secret thoughts; and when politicians turned against it, a few people committed suicide, open minds called a truce...