Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intents and purposes the prolonged baseball series is developing into a long-distance hop scotch contest in which both the University and Yale teams have steadily been one jump behind the Weatherman. When Tuesday's game was called off at New Haven, conditions were fair in Cambridge; and when both teams were at Cambridge yesterday there was an accommodating let-up in the down-pour at New Haven. Apparently the signals have been mixed somewhere. Instead of having any of the players "sent to the showers", the authorities are sending the showers after the players. Aside from the fact that...
...Transvaal. One convincing proof of this fact lies in the ranks of the miners themselves. Contrary to popular opinion, the vast majority of the white laborers in the mines are of British descent--only a very small percentage are Dutch--and it is this division, composed of English, Scotch, and Irish workers, that is causing the difficulty...
...more or less with politics, but at any rate keeping every one in a happy frame of mind with his witticisms. The speech was followed by some very skillful violin playing. "The Cave Man" was an interesting interpretation of the old them suggested by the title. Jock McKay, the Scotch humorist, pleased with his quaint humor and bagpipe. Wilson and Larsen. "The Crazy Men from San Francisco", were uproariously funny, combining, acrobatics with a good line of humor...
...course every one believes that he thinks clearly himself. So did the little Scotch girl, who said "Grandmother, all the world is daft but thee and me, and I think thee a little queer sometimes." No one really thinks clearly unless he has thought long and profoundly; unless he comprehends the point of view of those who do not agree with him; unless he has found out the limitations of his own principles; for all theories, principles, maxims, and rules of human conduct can be carried ad absurdum. They all have their proper limits, because at some point they come...
...Circumstance (with Organ), Elgar 2. Overture, "William Tell", Rossini 3. Waltz, "Roses from the South", Strauss 4. Fantasia, "Samson and Delilah", Saint-Saens 5. Selection from "Pinafore", Sullivan 6. Bacchanale (The Venusberg) from Act 1, "Tannhauser, Wagner 7. Kammenol Ostrow, Rubinstein 8. Second Hungarian Rhapsody, Liszt 9. Selection of Scotch Airs, "The Thistle". arr. Mydlleton 10. "Valse Gracieuse", E. German 11. Land of the Maple, Laurendeau