Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tutorial system is spreading throughout the colleges of the United States. That the essential spirit behind this important development in educational methods remains the same whether at Harvard, at Swarthmore, at Wisconsin, or at Oregon is true, but there are certain phases in its advance which merit serious question...
Coach Brown said that there probably would be no Spring training trip for the crews, but that the men would return to the Charles for the last four days of the Spring recess. At this time serious training will begin and the oarsmen will eat at the Varsity Club...
...floor. He despatched the bootblack for whiskey and had a barber telephone for Rear Admiral Grayson.* The bootblack quickly returned with several containers of whiskey and other restoratives. Senator Jones revived. Presently the Doctor-Admiral arrived, and Senator Jones was removed to the Emergency hospital. His condition was pronounced serious. For several years he has suffered from angina pectoris. An hour previous to his collapse in the barber shop, Senators had noted he looked poorly. He had been making a speech on one of the most complicated matters Senators ever gave ear to-the Alien Property Bill...
...people know all Ten Commandments. Last year Associate Professor Walter B. Pitkin of Columbia, in serious wonder, tested out 14 college professors, 18 newsgatherers, 10 writers, and 6 businessmen. Only one - Professor William P. Montague of Columbia - knew all (TIME, April...
...they separated. The former became a seaman on the "Bay State" bound for Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, and Hongkong. It was at the last port that he went ashore, lured by the prospect of work because of the shipping strike which had just set in and which later became a serious boycott. Leys worked with coolies, attained the dignity of winch-driver, and later made out to the ships daily to cargo with his gang of riff-raff and strike-breakers, returning at night under a pelter of stones from the strikers. He worked on the beach, in the hospitals...