Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This Ingersoll lecture will not be like its predecessors." Mr. Philip Cabot '91 told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "They have been delivered by scholars and addressed to scholars," this one will be delivered by a plain man, not too old to understand how younger men feel, with a view to meeting the questions in regard to immortality which naturally arise in young men's minds...
...Owen Davis's stage thriller of 15 years ago. In other ways they have built up the veracity of the play, so that the old melodrama, with its numerous, complicated and quite mechanical thrills, becomes good fun. In the final shot the producers make it plain that this is playacting, after...
...future also, Freshmen will be prohibited from wearing yellow slickers, a plain black slicker, a plain black slicker being required. The spinning of tops, and marble playing for upperclassmen have been dropped from the list of customs. However, the privilege of wearing silk hats has been restored to Juniors and Seniors...
...young American, full of energy," tall, slim, graceful is Harold Barlow, a native of the Middle West (Plain City, Ohio), a representative of the Far West (Portland, Ore.), a graduate of Reed College and the Columbia University Music Department, who has had the daring to organize and lead an orchestra "composed solely of Americans and dedicated to the performance of compositions by Americans...
...must have students who are men. They must believe in honesty, plain decency, must be chivalrous, must respect themselves and be industrious. Self-restraint is the first requirement of a student. We must wisely bring back some of the chivalry of the Middle Ages to be used at the present time. That would elevate our attitude toward women...