Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Situation Serious...
...Freshman class is a pretty serious minded bunch of men--or so one would gather from vocational data recently collected by Phillips Brooks House about...
...beginning is a green light; a dash, comma, semicolon or colon is a yellow light to make readers hesitate, a period, question mark or exclamation point is a red light. Suggested classroom game: a punctuation court for trying traffic violators: e.g.: "John Jones, you are charged with the serious offense of passing a period." Another game: a row of pupils, each representing a part of speech, stands before a blackboard holding sheets of white paper over their heads. As a sentence is read, each part of speech jumps, like popping corn. A pupil who fails to pop at the right...
...thinks he is a good friend of the instructor, because it meets in the same room as his preceding class and he will not have to wake up to change classes, or because its examination comes at a convenient date, he will have a well thought out and serious reason for taking it when he confronts his tutor today or tomorrow for his signature on the study card, which must be field in University Hall by 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon...
...more serious aspects of camp routine had their "small" share of the time of the students during this first two week period. When the clouds of dust had cleared away from the pistol range, it was actually discovered that some of the shots had richocheted thru the "bull's eyes" of the targets...