Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college came sheepishly back arranging meets in minor sports, then trying the major games. At last the final link has been forged and the chain of friendly rivalry is again complete. The causes of the first fracture need not be analysed here. A new generation sits in the undergraduate seat, eager to carry on tradition...
...Judge Priest turns the tables in masterful fashion. While the strains of "Dixie" are wafted into the hushed courtroom, the parson, (Henry B. Walthall) comes forward as character witness on behalf of the defendant. The resulting climax will cause Guiseppe Vespucci, of South Boston, to rise tearful from his seat and give the rebel yell...
Evening came and the hour for the momentous sermon. Huge crowds jammed every seat in St. Matthew's Church and packed the streets outside. Suddenly guards discovered that the good Bishop was not in his study, nor in his bedroom, nor in his parlor, nor in his bathroom. In fact he was nowhere in his house. Slyly he had skipped through a back door and escaped the police cordon in a car bearing an Augsburg license plate. Squads of mounted police clattered up to St. Matthew's Church, but the Bishop was already inside and in his pulpit...
Natalya Koussevitzky, obscure in her balcony seat, had her own feast-day coming. Two days after the Symphony opening came her 60th birthday. Koussevitzky, patterning himself after Wagner, had Symphony men go to their Brookline home, play an early-morning serenade to his good wife...
...college men without any specialized training, are either on the unemployed docket or working at posts requiring but a grammar-school education. In contrast to the medieval university that offered the few scholars enlightenment in the sciences and arts, the modern university seems, in many cases, to be the seat of a social sphere and a superficial dilettantism...