Word: perform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides being the first fruit of the Frank régime, the college will perform a test of educational theories that Dr. Meiklejohn has been propounding since his policies lost him his presidential chair at Amherst in 1923. The young gentlemen of Wisconsin will be asked to study a single civilization intensively from many angles, as explained by Drs. Frank and Meiklejohn in magazine articles lately (TIME...
...Pope's niece, Contessa Ratti, whose marriage to Marquis Eduardo Persichetti Ugolini of the Nicaraguan legation is to be celebrated, in October, recently asked her potent uncle to perform the ceremony. The Pope has not yet said whether he will...
...they are so formal), and in truth the deserted and departed aspect of it will fit the mood of many, alike those who have received postals and those who have not. In the next few days, most of them will glory in the air of decay in which they perform the last rites and, between jumping on recalcitrant trunks and stuffing odd laundry cases, will heave the sighs of relief that indicate. "It is all over". One hopes that the return will be solaced by the arts of summer...
There is a function for every under graduate paper to perform. Underlying the selections set forth for the information, improvement, or amusement of its readers, there is a half-conscious realization of a policy to be held to with more or less of consistency. The current Lampoon contains one contribution which fulfills this requirement of a purpose admirably. This is Lampy's conception of the proposed Memorial Chapel, for besides being an amusing caricature of the contemplated steeple, it manages to show up in high relief the absurdities of the design as reproduced in the CRIMSON last week. The editors...
...reject his overtures, but one, taking a dislike to his shy looks and gentle manners, took him away in an automobile, deserted him on a lonely highroad. The puppy made his way back. Finding that the beast survived even his own natural inclination to sniff at whirling propellers and perform in the path of descending planes, this flyer, one Waldo Robey, pilot of the Porterfield Flying School, took him 800 feet up in a plane, dropped him overboard. The diminutive body, smashed to pulp, buried itself a foot deep in the earth. . . . "Just a little prank," said Pilot Robey, grinning...