Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Farrell, who was the first to address the meeting expressed his satisfaction at the size of the initial turn-out. He then went on to stress the necessity of beginning intensive practice and training immediately on account of the short season. Captain Tibbetts reviewed the success of the track...
If it has not been bread-and-buttery, our adult education has been "pointed"-that is, missionary. Not that adult education should avoid controversial subjects; but it is not at its best when effecting even "Americanization."
Market quotations of stocks continued last week to decline, with heavy selling. For industrials the Dow-Jones average stood at 139.02, the lowest for the year and more than 20 points less than six weeks ago. Towards this effect, of the many complicating causes, two may be pointed out: 1...
The art of debate is moving now from very rigid, severe standards of presentation toward a less formal delivery. The Harvard-Yale contest, whence the discussion proceeds, was an experiment pointed in that direction; and like any early experiment in the arts, it tended to bewilder, and its effect was...
"Any first job when a man leaves college." Professor Piper pointed out, "is a probationary job. There are things no university can do for its graduates, and to adjust him noiselessly to his life work is one of them. We have here, for instance, in the files of the School...