Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other side, has some of the worst recording this reviewer has ever heard. The turn-table on the recorder was varying so badly when the record was made that it changes key about every thirty seconds ... Listen to the first chorus of Art Shaw's "Rose Room." The rest is not so good. Casa Loma turns loose a rather weird sense of humor, recording "The Old Oaken Bucket" under the title of "Hoboken Bucket" ... Funny thing that Benny Goodman's best records in the last year have been note for note copies of someone else. First, "One O'Clock Jump...
...second year in a row, the Dartmouth Indian cagers proved themselves too tough for the rest of the League teams during the first part of the campaign and piled up a safe margin over their closest rivals. This year they went nine games before being tripped by the Big Red, and last night they also bowed to the Columbia Lions, leaving the Mooneyites only one game behind the Green, but without a mathematical chance of overtaking them...
...time during the game did the academy players threaten. Thoroughly outclassed, they trailed 23 to 5 at the end of the first quarter and attempted in vain throughout the rest of the contest to ward off the barrage of Crimson shots...
...that exalted calling. But the increased security provided the younger members of the Faculty more than balances the first objection, and the second criticism is nullified by the fact that competition will serve only as a stimulus to those academicians who at the present time are prone to rest on their laurels. Although minor objections may remain, it seems likely that these proposals will not only decrease the present discontent among instructors, but will also raise standards of teaching and research...
Doubtless Phi Beta Kappa men are fully aware that they alone are capable of saving the helpless rest of civilization from accidental suicide, but they have certainly been incredibly listless about doing it. So far, all they have accomplished has been in the line of rallies featuring the clarion call of intellectualism and reiterating that the world will be much safer when it is entirely in their hands...