Word: playfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote the letter. He knew that the fight would be one with no quarter asked or given. He knew that those who felt as he did would be at a disadvantage. And so he has made an attempt to introduce into the fight a few rules of fair play. He has appealed to the opposition not to present the issue as one of immediate war or peace. He has done the same thing President Roosevelt did at the outset of his message to Congress when he attributed high motives to his opponents and asked them for reciprocation...
Thursday, Oct. 5--Play begins in all House tournaments. The winners in each House will meet in an Inter-House Championship tournament...
...20th Century a whole tribe of scholars and interpreters have encamped on the slopes of the Bard, assaying his every semicolon. Their discoveries have made a gulf great & wide between the specialist's knowledge of Shakespeare and the ordinary reader's memory, in which the plays are likely to seem bombastical old standbys, crested here and there with great quotations. To distill the specialist's knowledge, to provide a lucid and sound account of what art may now be seen in every play, remained an important job for somebody...
Entries to the fall golf and tennis tournaments are now open and a touch football team is being organized to play against House teams...
Samborski urged all men who wish to come out for football to report at Dillon Field House this afternoon for uniforms. The Dorm team will play several outside games during the season, probably with a prop school and with a Tech class team, as well as games with the House teams...