Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prize was established, strutting and fretting across the platform was still a la mode, although on the decline. But these, along with other hoary traditions, have all but succumbed to the ravages of time. Not only has formal speaking suffered but dramatics and debating have progressed far along the path towards oblivion...
...their brogues. In their thrice-weekly pilgrimages to the venerable rooms of Harvard Hall, undergraduates are, in time of thaw, confronted with a problem which would try the complacence of the most nonchalant. For some unknown reason no boards have been placed over the much used thirty foot path leading from Harvard Hall to the drive...
After the first influx of students has paced over this ground, the path remains in such a succulent and oozy condition that only the most courageous dare traverse it. Professorial dignity is scattered to the winds when the unfortunate faculty members who teach in Harvard Hall try to avoid the mud of one path by navigating the brook let leading towards University Hall...
Work in Progress has been appearing serially in transition for the last two years. Author Joyce, no smoother of the path for his public, gave the transition editors only the first and third sections, one instalment of the second, supplied no key to the whole. The prevailing explanation: to out-smart literary pirates...
Sometimes it is a little hard to slip back into the traces that guide one in the straight and narrow path. It took inducements of no mean nature to draw the Vagabond down from the hills where long winter evenings and well-thumbed books hold their spell. But a glance every now and then at the lectures scheduled for the coming few weeks will make perfectly clear just why the old rover has returned...