Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years after the Civil War American architecture had reached the lowest depths of degeneration. There has been no parallel to the American architecture of that period in all history...
...Then a year at Princeton, whence he was fired for a "prank." Then an inordinate mixture of oddities. He worked in a mail order firm in Manhattan; went gold prospecting to Honduras; shipped as a common sailor to South American ports; was destitute, "on the beach," for a considerable period in Buenos Aires; played in vaudeville; became a reporter in New London, Conn. These years hacked his health to pieces and it was in a Connecticut sanitarium, defeating a faint touch of tuberculosis, that he stopped to think. Soon he wrote his first play and proceeded to George Pierce Baker...
...shifting its line-up at the middle of each period so as to have a fresh team constantly in action, the Dartmouth basketball quintet turned back Harvard Saturday night, 44-31. On the basis of comparative scores, the University five had been conceded at least an even chance of victory, but so effective was the Dartmouth plan of attack that the Crimson was never really dangerous...
...students it will be a phase of the honor system. They are subtly invited to consider, by the provisions of the reading periods, that they will not be expected to consider the periods just so much holiday, applying themselves to the reading lists only at the very end of the period and then under the deft ministrations of an expert hired tutor. When they are supposed to be reading about Laertes and the nebular hypothesis and Socratian argument they will be expected to be doing so, not keeping social engagements in Boston or playing squash and hand ball...
...Harvard wrestling teams get into action this evening in their first contests after the interim of the mid-year examination period. With four new men in the line-up, the University grapplers are scheduled to take the mat against Springfield College at 8 o'clock in Hemenway Gymnasium. Holders of H. A. A. season tickets will be admitted to this event. The first year men travel to Watertown, Conn., where they will engage the wrestlers from Taft School...