Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman team has also had a very impressive record this season since it has lost only one game and that by a one-point margin to Andover. The last game that was played resulted in a 29-22 victory over the Brown Freshmen. The Exeter game which was scheduled for last Saturday had to be cancelled on account of an epidemic which made the Academy team unable to meet any outsiders. In the practices which the 1929 men have been holding every afternoon Burns and Thackaberry have been showing up particularly well...
...record of the Debating Union is one of high mediocrity. In its three and one half years of existence, it has held fourteen meetings with attendances ranging from a minimum of forty to a usual audience of about sixty and an extraordinary maximum of four hundred brought out by the football debate last fall. It has thrived best on college subjects. The biggest and most ardent audiences were attracted by the topics of football and military training...
...through a community of Tibetans the expedition was held up by a religious ceremony which involved supplications and sacrifices to a living man believed to be a reincarnation of Buddha himself. The deity was induced to pose for my camera and I was able to bring back a living record for the silver screen...
...course the most thrilling thing in my pictorial record is the series of pictures we took of Irvine and Mallory when they climbed up into the snow and out of sight...
...such arguments in the end fall back on the evidence of tradition:--under the democratic system, the United States has reached its present pinnacle, therefore experience has proven majority rule justified. As a matter of historical record, universal male suffrage has operated in America little more than a century. Before that time, propertied oligarchies led the people with considerable success as is witnessed by the Revolutionary War. The establishment of the American Constitution also was the work of men elected under a rigid property qualification...