Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...iceman, professional footballer, movie actor, recovered Pucklewartz's fumble of a punt and put Illinois in position for the opening touch down. Score 14-0. Ohio State blighted Chicago's commanding position in the Conference by throwing a 50 yard forward pass over the goal line in the last period to win, 13-7. Minnesota, among the dwindling quota of elevens undefeated, gobbled up Wisconsin...
Cotton. The Department of Agriculture announced last week that gins turned out 2,172,000 bales for the October period. This was a decrease of 269,000 compared with September and the price of cotton advanced. The rise was not sustained. Excellent October weather extended picking and increased receipts, and the influence of a depressing stock market and uncertain trade promoted a decline. Cotton closed the week at 20.05 cents a pound for Demember delivery, at the 480 pound rate, $96.24 per bale...
...columns of today's CRIMSON the old and all important question of the final destination and purpose of Harvard's experiment with the tutorial system. As in the case of all large experiments of this sort involving first a sharp and radical change followed by a long period of slow evolution, the tutorial system is an off and on issue with the general undergraduate public. At one moment it is acutely aware of the existence of the tutorial plan; then follow varying periods of apathy and neglect...
...hour examinations as conducted at present cover the work done in a period of four or five weeks. In that time the student has adjusted himself to the mechanics of the course and little more. The actual knowledge he has assimilated or is even supposed to have assimilated is comparatively minute. The outcome is this: a man who is gifted with imaginative powers may write an examination which compares very favorably with that of a man who has done his work with regularity and precision. Both receive the same grade. That grade influences the mid-year or final mark...
...topic of Mr. Hamilton's speech will be "The Trend of Contemporary Drama." Mr. Hamilton, a writer and lecturer on the Stage, and Professor of Dramatics at Columbia, in his many books has not confined his attention to the present period but has ranged all the way from Aeschylus to Eugene O'Neill and from Aristophanes to George M. Cohan. Four of his volumes of dramatic criticism are published in a uniform series by Henry Holt and Company; these are "The Theory of the Theatre," "Studies in Stagecraft," "Problems of the Playwright," and "Seen on the Stage." His most recent...