Word: ruggedness
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Back & forth across the paved courtyard of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, rugged as a caribou, strode last week with ten meat-eating companions. On nothing but fresh killed meat did they subsist during the week, and nothing other than fresh meat were they to eat...
...Headmaster Stearns pointed a moral when he said that the Modern Schoolboy is "possibly a bit lacking in some of the more rugged qualities" due to "the fault of the modern social conditions in which he finds himself living." And Headmaster Perry seemed to sense a lack of mental ruggedness. "They have far more information but possibly less intellectual curiosity...
For a limited engagement, then, Cambridge offers to the world the only crew course which may be covered, so to speak, on the hoof. Also the more enterprising, by skating close to the banks of the river, may set up a new record for the freshman cross country course, proving...
Minstrels of days gone by lived their lives, traveled the highways and byways, sang their songs, died and were forgotten. So, too often, were the songs they sang, simple, singable songs that came from the people and belonged to them. Happily for the survival of the homely, story-telling songs...
The Nobel diplomas were handed to M. Buisson and Herr Quidde by tall, rugged King Gustav V of Sweden. Diplomas covering literature, medicine and physics were then handed by His Majesty to winners announced some weeks ago (TIME, Nov. 7).