Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parents afraid that their young Gifteds may injure their precious health by too hard study. In forty years only one Nassovian has died of overstudy. Not a single member of the Faculty has so perished, says the Dean, gibing his brother Dons. In the days before universal athletics the pale and rickety "grind" may have existed. Now the man on the honor list is quite likely to have biceps like "the magnificent exaggerations of antique sculpture," and one seldom sees a pining professor unless it be in a Pullman, where he is homesick for his tennis or his golf. Health...
...angle of the conventional criticism of the present-day college is that it is too much detached from the ordinary, prosaic life beyond the pale of campus or club. Is this criticism just? Perhaps the logical reply is that the college in order to serve its proper function must be 'quite detached from the narrowness and pettiness of everyday existence; that it should not wallow in the muck of sordid partyism, but that it should cling to a rational idealism, attempting to apply its formulas worked out in the experiment station to the unscientific and illogical conditions of an unreasoning...
...intercollegiate crew season will open on April 9, when the University of California meets the University of Washington on the Pacific Coast, and although this struggle is outside the pale of Eastern collegiate rowing, the result will pass by far from unnoticed. The general feeling is that the winner will travel East to compete in neighboring waters, and the intersectional flavor which always accompanies a Pacific Coast athletic group East will give added Interest to the Hudson River regatta...
...reviewer wonders as he puts down the Advocate why it is that college literary magazines, if they are not cheap,--and the Advocate is never cheap,--tend to be pale and bloodless things, useful for the purpose of enabling their writers to see their work in print, but of little general interest to the college commu- nity. Isn't it possible that this is because most of the contributions to college literary magazines are written, not to entertain the undergraduates and their friends, but to meet the requirements of some course in English Composition, and are subsequently turned over...
...lily and pale as a sleeping moth...