Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Walsh said: "It looks as if you had some good reason for signing that guarantee...
...Significance. The play was strange, not only by reason of its length. Playwright O'Neill re-introduced the aside, mainstay of earlier dramatists, long discarded by scornful realists. His people's words and actions he completed with their thoughts. Every few moments the action stopped completely while an immobile performer spoke what was rattling through his mind. The spoken word was often a direct denial of its companion thought. Suspicion, mastered grief, cynicism, inferiority?the raw matter of truth?were permitted and expressed. The author tried devotedly to give his hearers a third theatrical dimension. The strange convention, difficult...
Alligators, as mascots of the University of Florida football team, may add color to the recently scheduled contest for the fall of 1929. When the peninsula team invaded the Stadium in 1922, the voracious reptiles were included in the trip and there is every reason to expect their reappearance two years hence...
...games more often than every other year. This alone, when the undergraduates of the two institutions are included in the total, renders the present Stadium or even one with the open end closed, seating 50,000 or so, inadequate. Nor does there seem to be any good reason why graduates of the graduate schools--law, business, medicine--should be limited to one seat, the number which they are forced, very much against their will, to accept now. These men are asked to contribute to the various drives of the University, they are eligible and energetic workers at the many Harvard...
...even should they remain adamant in their demand for tickets, there does not seem to be any reason why a large Stadium must inevitably prove an evil, though it must be admitted that the evils feared by the opponents of any change will be made more readily possible with an 80,000 capacity structure. In regard to the "professional" fear it should be remembered that there is even now, with the small Stadium, an open sale of tickets to all the games but those against Dartmouth and Yale, and that the "outside", undesirable element does not even under these conditions...