Word: points
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reading Mr. Morris one gets the feeling of sitting at the feet of a clear minded old campaigner who has one or two good stories to tell. The pages turn quickly, the style is pleasantly homely, the interest glows from one point to another. But its worth as a valuation of Whitman's art, in this reviewer's opinion, small...
...came close to preventing a whitewash in the second period, actually checking up a point but the score was disallowed. The referee's whistle had blown before Whitmore dubbed one in because of a penalty on Stubbs. The remainder of the game was slow, except for an occasional rally, both teams tiring rapidly...
...course there are numerous advantages to this arrangement, such as its excellence as a training possibility for prospective athletes (and jailbirds), the fact that it tends to keep the personnel of Randolph and Apthorp off the streets, and the all-important one from a Watch and Ward point of view, that it keeps the personnel of the streets out of Randolph and Apthorp...
...appearance of war books in greater numbers on the market, the enthusiastic reception of war plays, all point to an increasing interest in this subject on the part of the public. The first revulsion of feeling which followed the world war rapidly faded, and the victorious nations still maintain their armies and still build their navies. But in all this time there has been an ever increasing undercurrent of feeling. From the Hague Conference down through the League of Nations and the World Court, clearer has come the cry for peace; and the nations of the world, weary and sick...
...sports during the period 1870 to 1905 is the curious parallelism with which intelligent supervision of University athletics has kept pace with the decreasing death rate. While Harvard, compared with other colleges, has an extremely high mortality for the thirty-five years during which statistics were available, the important point is the rapidity with which it has been lowered with the passing of each decade. Twenty years before the turn of the century, the Harvard athlete in comparison with the average non-college man was a thirteen to ten bet to succumb to the grim reaper before the great mass...