Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-meant they may be. It seems, therefore, that the appointment of the committee is only a device to gain time for more consideration of the proposal. The significance of the incident lies in this very move which indicates that the Association has accepted a suggestion as worthy of serious attention...
...asked and obtained permission to attend the University and study geology under Prof. Branner. The boys in the field class looked upon this serious girl disapprovingly until they saw her vault a fence and follow the party without assistance...
...freshman year, Miss Henry was discussing rock specimens with Prof. Branner in his laboratory. A stocky, serious-looking young man came in. He was a senior. Prof. Branner introduced him and said: "Miss Henry thinks this rock belongs to the precarboniferous age. What do you think. Hoover?" Hoover didn't think so. While he was explaining why, Prof. Branner was called away. Miss Henry and Senior Hoover kept on discussing rocks. He could tell her a good deal about geology. She repaid him by helping with his English when it threatened to flunk him and prevent his graduation...
When Mrs. Hoover was a co-ed at Stanford, she knew and liked Marguerite May Blake there, a serious-minded girl studying medicine. Miss Blake married Ray Lyman Wilbur, whom Herbert Hoover was to choose for his Secretary of the Interior. Mrs. Wilbur is Mrs. Hoover's closest friend in official Washington...
...Company, the theatre will be in the open air, under a dome of boughs. Top price: $2.50. Life membership in the Society (entitling to 20% price reduction): $25. These frolics al fresco are counted on to stimulate theatre-unconscious St. Louisans so that next winter a program of more serious dramatics may be given with profit. Plays of John Galsworthy and Frederick Lonsdale have been considered for presentation in a renovated downtown theatre. A $1,000 prize awaits the first St. Louisan who writes a producible play. The Theatre Society was conceived by an Englishman named Peter Greig, Cambridge graduate...