Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noise is not all. There are two technical points that make all the difference between a dull, heavy roar and spirited singing. Roll every r: "rrrip 'em thrrrough!" And sing as staccato as possible by putting an h before each vowel. Really "Hit the line for Harvard;" make "The cheers frrrom the Harvard hosts rrring high" mean something; and on the last line of the Marseillaise don't sing a feeble "Anon to victory," but a short, snappy prophetic: "hon hon to victory." ABBOTT LOW MOFFAT...
...that bunch of hoodlums, skunks and what not, who delight in razzing Harvard at every step, the less paper wasted on them the better. Perhaps some day the Harvard cheering section will get kind of peeved, peel off their coats, roll up their sleeves and march over to those wooden stands and settle once and for all the question as to whose Stadium this is anyway. V. SALSMAN '23, PROV...
...usual when we come to the honor roll Leona Powers leads all the rest. She has a way of letting the St. James productions revolve about her, apparently thriving under this treatment. Viola Roach was splendid as Mrs. Harrington. It would be folly to sort out the others of the cast. The reason for a smooth, lively, interesting performance is that no part is done badly. We would go so far is to say that "Under Cover" was altogether satisfactory...
...world is in confusion,--the natural result of the turmoil of thought, the ebullition of feeling that accompany and follow a great war. Men's minds are like the sea after a storm, where, although the wind has gone down, the billows still roll and break, irresistible in their huge mass, and threatening to founder even the ship that has ridden out the gale. Conditions have not yet returned to a normal state; nor has the world adjusted itself to them. In such a state of bewilderment, of misunderstandings, of cross purposes, what is needed? The answer is clear thinking...
...from measuring up to this standard. We have no great literature such as a Shakespeare or a Voltaire or a Homer might have written. Of the great men who are "high and perfect types of humanity" Dr. Hung-Ming speaks little, and then only to dismiss Washington from the roll-call of the great by characterizing him a good average...