Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...didn't move the ball as well as they did.... We came out of the game pretty well physically, which is as much as you can ask.... It's nice to have someone like Crouthamel on your side, though I think we do pretty well ourselves.... Penn will be rough, but we can be, too. We'll come back...
...varsity on the other hand, had experienced some rough going. Having staggered through victories over B.U., Middlebury, Holy Cross, Indiana, and Georgia, it had created a reputation for playing in cliff-hangers. And the week before the Centre encounter, the varsity had needed an eleventh-hour comeback to tie a good but not great Penn State eleven...
...with a huge stack of applications, and subject to intense pressures from within the College, the Dean of Admissions must maintain a host of balances. Perhaps the most controversial balance is that between students with superior academic preparation, and the less prepared, but no less brilliant "diamonds-in-the-rough" students whose pre-college background has failed to provide an atmosphere of learning...
...well as "diamonds-in-the-rough," the Dean has looked for students with exceptional "character" qualities. In the booklet sent to all applicants, the Admissions Office writes that "the obsessive grade-grubber, the person who is afraid of life, and the arrogant or precious intellectual are not likely to profit greatly here...
...half of the issue contains a verse play, called A Wind of Light, by Jonathan Revere, a Dunster House senior. It describes two shallow, dissolute Italian youths who are transformed into passionate tragic characters in a play they are acting out on a hot summer afternoon. The dialogue, though rough in many places is done with some skill and the illusion of the character transformation is reasonably effective. The vast, pseudo-profound generalizations in the tragedy sequence are not always successful, and a number of Revere's phrases (the title, for instance) though pleasant sounding, and even suggestive, have...