Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides organizing future climbs in New Hampshire and vicinity, the club is planning a super-issue of the annual journal which will contain stories on all the recent climbs made by members of the club within the past three years as well as more than ten illustrations of difficult summits...
...seems ridiculous to adopt the attitude that a man must wrestle badly and beneath his abilities to insure team victory. But that is exactly the position adopted by wrestling coaches, especially throughout New England. For the past several years, one of our fore-most rivals in the sport has each year followed this policy of submerging a man for the sake of a few points. Such a situation is much different from that of a football team, for instance, where one man does the dirty work of blocking and tackling to the exclusion of any spectacular ball-carrying...
...their idyllic plot they have added an atmosphere as romantic as a pair of handcuffs, a sty's-the-limit vulgarity. To those who were not of theatre age in 1900, / Must Love Someone gives the impression that the Florodora Sextet included such glamor girls of the past as Red Light Annie, Chicago May and Lizzie Borden...
...wandering scholar. We have our itinerant or fleeting scholar. Hundreds of thousands of these itinerant students move from college to college, each armed with his letter of credit." Dr. Jessup found that collegiate hoboism, once thought of as a shiftless, spendthrift, boomtime phenomenon, had in the past few years reached appalling proportions. Although it is commonly supposed that the typical college student enters as a freshman and emerges from the same college with a diploma four years later, actually today most students transfer or drop out before commencement day. Only one-third receive degrees in the college in which they...
...author of this how-dy-do was one of the founders of the brash, short-lived Yale Harkness Hoot; at 21 wrote Challenge to Defeat, slapping the face of depression pessimists. In Hannibal Hooker, his first novel, he breezes past all moral and religious stop-signs. He is, in brief, a daring young man, and his agility on literary trapezes is breathtaking. But after his stunts are over, it is not quite clear what all the squirming and leaping were about...