Word: placid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skating, 150 yards: Charles Jewtraw, Lake Placid...
...With ten lettermen available at the beginning of the season Coach Tuck has developed a combination which has won 12 out of 13 games, having been defeated only by the Army sextet 1-0. The squad had some valuable early season experience on its Christmas vacation trips to Lake Placid and Buffalo, winning five games. After an easy 6-2 victory over Hamilton, the Dartmouth skaters were forced to the limit to gain a 4-2 triumph over Cornell in two overtime periods...
...ripples made by that stone as it struck Walden's placid surface were the first irradiations of an idea that has not yet reached Columbia College. The strange and beautiful idea of living one's life for its own sake-of doing only the things one likes to do, and shunning the needless complexity of organized relations-is so foreign to these halls that one might more trustingly hope for privacy on a merry go-round than seek it on Morningside Heights. . . . Our day is a restless scrimmage, a succession, of caucuses, conferences. luncheons, public appearances and group entertainments. "Activity...
...sleep-walking" scene was described by Professor Kittredge as the most pathetic in all tragedy. "But the culmination", he concluded, "comes in Macbeth's reception of the news of his wife's death. His placid comment on the subject is in direct contrast to the passionate love for her evinced in earlier scenes. This--more than the murder of Duncan, more than the slaying of Banquo--this is the tragedy of Macbeth...
...Orange and Black sextet opened their season during Christmas when they games at Lake Placid, but the first intercollegiate contest did not come till January 6. On this date the New Jersey players inflicted a decisive defeat on the Pennsylvania aggregation, 4-0, and journeyed to New Haven on the 14th fully expecting to give the Elis a hard battle. Such proved to be the case, but Yale possessed the greater stamina and aggressiveness...